IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Organizing Committee Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time
• Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past President of the National Committee for Astronomy in United States (until 2016)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.7 - Sociology of Astronomy
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks
7 - Planetary systems: 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.2 - Stars: atmospheres, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.30 - Stars: pre-main sequence, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.10 - ISM: Herbig-Haro objects
10 - The Galaxy: 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations