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 G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.7 - Atomic data, 2.17 - Lines
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.7 - Sun: evolution
7 - Planetary systems: 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.21 - Stars: low-mass, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter