 Ventzek was Chair of the American Vacuum Society's Plasma Science and Technology Division, Chair of the GEC, and a professor at Keio University.Ventzek's work has been cited a number of times.In 1994, Peter Ventzek, together with Dr. Mark Kushner, Seung Choi, and Robert Hoekstra, received the Technical Excellence Award for research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on computer modeling of plasma reactors.