Luigi Foschini
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
Via E. Bianchi, 46
23807 Merate
Italy
NCA adherence: Italy
Last updated:
March 10, 2023
IAU Status
Active Member
Affiliation(s) within the IAU
Past affiliation(s) within the IAU
- Past Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (until 2022)
- Past Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2015-2022)
- Past Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (until 2022)
- Past Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy (2015-2022)
- Past Member of Commission D1 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (2015-2022)
- Past Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust (2015-2022)
- Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 31 Time (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 52 Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy (until 2015)
- Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
- Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
- Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)
Areas of interest
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.4 - Acceleration of particles, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.29 - Relativistic processes
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.3 - Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects, 11.19 - Galaxies: jets, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars, 11.29 - Galaxies: Seyfert
12 - Cosmology: 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy