IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation
• Member of Commission B5 Laboratory Astrophysics
• Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics
• Member of Division B WG UV Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2012-2015)
• Past President of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2009-2012)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2009-2012)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2006-2009)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (2009-2012)
• Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.21 - Molecular processes
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter
11 - Galaxies: 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM