Els Peeters (born 1973) is a Belgian-Canadian astronomer who completed her PhD at the University of Groningen on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and dust in regions of massive star formation. A faculty member in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Western University in London, Canada, Peeters studies how stars are formed, the interstellar and circumstellar medium in galaxies, and theoretical astrochemistry. She is one of the co-discoverers of fullerenes in space.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin,2023-03-20, Volume 3, Number 4, page 9