Silvia Torres-Peimbert

Silvia Torres-Peimbert (also known as Silvia Linda Torres Castilleja, born in 1940) is a Mexican astronomer. She won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America for her work determining the chemical composition of nebulae.

Life Torres-Peimbert was born in Mexico City in 1940. She studied Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) before going to the University of California, Berkeley. She returned to Mexico to conduct post-doctoral research at her alma mater. She studied star formation and the mass thrown out by mid-size stars. She has studied the distribution of the primordial helium abundance.

Torres-Peimbert was the editor of Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica from 1974 to 1998

Torres-Peimbert was named President of the International Astronomical Union for the 2015-2018 period, becoming the second woman to preside over the IAU. and a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World.

She won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America.