Peter Aichelburg is the second child of Ludwig Aichelburg (born 1917) and Martha Michalek (born 1920), a descendant of the Bohemian line of the House of Aichelburg [de] from Carinthia.[2]
Before his retirement in November 2007 Aichelburg taught at the University of Vienna, where he held a position of full professor ( Univ.-Prof. Dr. ) at the Institute of Theoretical Physics.[4]