Peter Paule is an Austrian mathematician who works in symbolic computation and its connections to combinatorics, number theory, and special functions. Since 1990 he has held a faculty position at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, and since 2009 he has directed the Institute.^[1]

Paule earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1982 under the supervision of Johann Cigler,^[2] and earned a habilitation from Johannes Kepler University in 1996.^[1] He is a member of the Academia Europaea,^[3] and in 2013 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]