IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 7 Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.10 - Chaos, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.15 - Gravitational waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.5 - Methods, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.5 - Occultations, 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.17 - Sun: interior, 6.18 - Sun: magnetic fields, 6.19 - Sun: oscillations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.26 - Stars: novae, cataclysmic variables, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows
10 - The Galaxy: 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy