IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Secretary of Commission 54 Optical & Infrared Interferometry (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter
• Past Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.24 - Opacity, 2.28 - Radiative transfer, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry
7 - Planetary systems: 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.30 - Stars: pre-main sequence, 8.31 - Stars: protostars, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.10 - ISM: Herbig-Haro objects
10 - The Galaxy: 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.13 - Galaxies: halos
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter