Petr Vogel is an Emeritus Senior Research Associate at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology.

Vogel's research interests are nuclear structure, neutrino physics, weak interactions, and nuclear astrophysics. He was born in Prague, and as a small child spent three years in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt during World War II. After the war, he and his family returned to Prague, where he completed his secondary education at the Czech Institute of Technology. He continued his studies in nuclear physics at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (near Moscow), where he was awarded the Soviet equivalent of a PhD in 1966. After spending two years at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Vogel decided to emigrate to the US, where he first held a postdoc position in Felix Boehm's research group at Caltech (1970-1975). He was offered a staff position at Caltech in 1975.

Vogel has traveled widely and maintained associations with international physics institutes and summer schools. With Boehm, he is the author of the book Physics of Massive Neutrinos (1987).

In 2008, he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.