Peter Funch (born 1965) is a Danish zoologist.
[1][2] A member of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene, he studies microscopic organisms and arthropods.
[2] He works in arctic biology, researching in Greenland.
[1] 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.
[3] Along with Kristensen, he also discovered Limnognathia maerski, another aquatic microscopic animal with its new respective phylum.