Thomas Appéré

Thomas Appéré is an associate scientist at L’IPAG, l’Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) in Grenoble, France, and a middle/high school physics and chemistry teacher at Jeanne d'Arc institution in Vitré, France. He holds a Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences and was formerly a post-doc at Laboratoire AIM (CEA-Saclay, France).

His research topic is the exploration of planetary surfaces with remote sensing. He studies the seasonal processes on Mars with OMEGA and CRISM hyperspectral images, focussing on the role of seasonal water ice deposits in the present martian water cycle. He also works on the massive inversion of VIMS observations of Titan.