Thérèse Encrenaz (née Gounon,[1] born 1946) is a French planetary scientist who "played a leading role in the development of planetology in Europe".
[2] Her research concerns extraterrestrial atmospheres, particularly of the planets and comets in the Solar System.
She is a research director for the CNRS, emeritus, affiliated with the Paris Observatory.
[4] After studies at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses [fr], Goddard Institute for Space Studies, University of Paris, and Paris Observatory,[2] she earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1968, a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1969,[4] and, in 1975, a doctorat d'état.
[5] She is the recipient of the 1998 CNRS Silver Medal, the 2007 Prix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France,[6] the 2010 David Bates Medal of the European Geosciences Union,[2] the 2014 Prix Deslandres of the French Academy of Sciences,[7] and the 2021 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the American Astronomical Society.