Grace Annamarie Wolf-Chase (née Wolf) is an American astronomer and science educator, working as a senior scientist and senior education and communication specialist at the Planetary Science Institute.
After working as an operator of the ARO 12m Radio Telescope for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, she completed a Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Arizona in 1992.
[7] Her dissertation, Dense gas in the Monoceros OB1 dark cloud and its relationship to star formation, was jointly advised by Charles Lada and Christopher Walker.
Since 2009 she has also been affiliated with the Zygon Center for Religion and Science in the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
[7] Wolf-Chase was named a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2024, "for outstanding and sustained work to bring the wonders of astronomical research to the general public, especially to diverse religious communities; and for significant investigations into bipolar molecular outflows within star-forming regions through multi-wavelength observations and analyses".