Catherine Ritz wata ‘yar kasar Faransa mai bincike ce a Antarctic, wacce aka fi sani da aikinta kan zanen kankara da tasirinsu kan hawan teku. Catherine Ritz ta sami digiri na biyu na Maîtrise de Physique a fannin kimiyyar lissafi a Faransa a cikin 1975. Ta gudanar da bincikenta na PhD wanda ya kai ga digirin Thèse de 3ème cycle a 1980 daga Jami'ar Grenoble, kuma ta karɓi Thèse de Doctorat d’Etat a 1992. Ritz ƙwararriyar climatologist ce kuma masaniyar ƙasa da aka sani musamman don gudummawar da take bayarwa ga binciken canjin yanayi. Ita babbar mai bincike ce don Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya ta Faransa (CNRS) a Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement, kuma tana da alaƙa da Jami'ar Grenoble Alpes. Bincikenta ya haɗa da yin ƙirƙira juyin halittar hular kankara; yin amfani da nau'ikan 3D don bincika canje-canje a cikin zanen kankara da ɗakunan kankara na Antarctica da Greenland; hakowa kankara; da bincike na sub-glacial isostasy. Ta buga labarai sama da 70. Daga cikin gudunmawar da Ritz ta fi ba da gudummawa akwai labarin da aka buga a cikin mujallar Nature a watan Disamba 2015.