IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Chair of Commission F1 WG Meteor Shower Nomenclature (MSN-WG)
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission B5 Laboratory Astrophysics
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects
• Member of Commission F1 WG Meteor Shower Nomenclature (MSN-WG)

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Chair of Commission F1 WG Meteor Shower Nomenclature (MSN-WG) (2023-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 22 WG Professional-Amateur Cooperation in Meteors
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (2013-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 WG Meteor Shower Nomenclature (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.1 - Editorials notices, 1.5 - Publications, bibliography, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.25 - Plasmas, 2.31 - Shock waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.5 - Occultations
6 - The Sun: 6.1 - Sun: abundances
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.5 - Interplanetary medium, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances
11 - Galaxies: 11.1 - Galaxies: abundances