Els Peeters, Professor

My main research areas are:

• carbonaceous molecules and dust (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon molecules, fullerenes, carbonaceous dust)
• galactic and extra-galactic star forming regions
• the interstellar and circumstellar medium

Most of my research is based on infrared spectrocopy and imaging with ground-based and space-born telescopes.

I am always looking for new graduate students, so if you're interested in doing a Master's or PhD project in one of these fields, please contact me.

1. Maragkoudakis, A., Peeters, E., and Ricca, A., “Spectral variations among different scenarios of PAH processing or formation”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 520, no. 4, pp. 5354–5372, 2023. doi:10.1093/mnras/stad465.
2. Jensen, P. A., Shannon, M. J., Peeters, E., Sloan, G. C., and Stock, D. J., “The mid-infrared aliphatic bands associated with complex hydrocarbons”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 665, 2022. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202141511.
3. Sidhu, A., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Peeters, E., and Cami, J., “Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon emission model in photodissociation regions - I. Application to the 3.3, 6.2, and 11.2 μm bands”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 514, no. 1, pp. 342–369, 2022. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac1255.
4. Berné, O., et al. “PDRs4All: A JWST Early Release Science Program on Radiative Feedback from Massive Stars”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 134, no. 1035, 2022. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ac604c.

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Undergraduate:
Astronomy 3302: Astrophysics of Interstellar Space
Astronomy 3303: Galaxies
Physics 2102: Modern Physics

Graduate:
Astronomy 9611: The Interstellar Medium

• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Grant, 2020-2023
• Faculty Scholar, Western University, 2017-2019
• Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation Early Researcher Award (ERA), 2011–2016
• NSERC Discovery Accelerator grant, 2010-2013
• NASA Group Achievement Award 2011 (awarded to the NASA Ames Astrochemistry Laboratory Group for the NASA Ames PAH database)
• Faculty of Science Outreach Award 2010 (awarded to entire Astronomy group)
• National Research Council Fellowship, 2003-2005

• Co-PI, "PDRs4All" JWST Early Release Science program
• JWST Users Committee member, 2017-2022
• Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA), full member
• American Astronomical Society (AAS), full member
• International Astronomical Union, member
• CASCA 2011, member scientific and local organizing committee (SOC & LOC)