Athina Coustenis

Athena Coustenis is an astrophysicist specializing in planetology. Coustenis has both French and Greek nationality and is director of research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, at LIRA, at the Paris Observatory, Meudon, France. She is involved in several space mission projects for the European Space Agency (ESA) and for NASA. Her research the exploration of the solar system and exoplanets using both space missions and ground-based observatories with a focus on the outer solar system and the moons of the gas giant planets, Saturn and Jupiter.