IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• 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 B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
• Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters (2018-2021)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Other affiliation(s)

• President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Portugal

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.1 - Editorials notices, 1.5 - Publications, bibliography, 1.6 - Astronomy Education
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.5 - Methods
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.21 - Galaxies: Local Group, 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds