Peter Funch (born 1965) is a Danish zoologist. A member of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene, he studies microscopic organisms and arthropods. He works in arctic biology, researching in Greenland.
Discoveries In 1995, along with Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, he discovered the microscopic aquatic animal Symbion pandora, which is so unlike any other known animals that he and Kristensen authored an entire new phylum for the species, Cycliophora. Along with Kristensen, he also discovered Limnognathia maerski, another aquatic microscopic animal with its new respective phylum.
He has also contributed to the creation of new scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy techniques.
Publications Funch has over 170 publications about multiple species. References
External links Peter Funch at Google Scholar