Líneas de investigación: Nebulosas palnetarias, regiones H II galácticas y extragalácticas.

Actualmente es Investigador Emérito, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Editor,  Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

Serie de Conferencias en la Sala del Universo en Universum

Single Point of Contact for  Mexico,  International Year of Astronomy 2009

Publicaciones recientes:

A New Outburst in the Extraordinary Central Star of LMC-N661,, Pea, Miriam; Ruiz, Maria Teresa; Rojo, Patricio; Torres-Peimbert, Silvia; Hamann, Wolf-Rainer, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 680, Issue 2, pp. L109-L111.

The Proto-Planetary Nebula M1-92 and the Symbiotic Star MWC 560: Two Evolutionary Phases of the Same Type of Object?, Arrieta, A.; Torres-Peimbert, S.; Georgiev, L., The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 623, Issue 1, pp. 252-268.

Broad H Wings in Nebulae around Evolved Stars and in Young Planetary Nebulae, Arrieta, A.; Torres-Peimbert, S., The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 147, Issue 1, pp. 97-102.

Optical Recombination Lines of Heavy Elements in Giant Extragalactic H II Regions, Esteban, Csar; Peimbert, Manuel; Torres-Peimbert, Silvia; Rodrguez, Mnica, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 581, Issue 1, pp. 241-257.

Peebles's Analysis of the Primordial Fireball, Peimbert, Manuel; Torres-Peimbert, Silvia, Astrophysical Journal, Centennial Issue, Vol. 525C, p. 1143.