IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Steering Committee Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• 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 J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution
• Member of Commission C1 WG Astronomy Competitions for Secondary School Students
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Steering Committee Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics (2021-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 29 Stellar Spectra (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IV Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Slovenia, the Republic of (2018-2023)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.15 - Gravitational waves, 2.29 - Relativistic processes
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.33 - Stars: rotation, 8.37 - Stars: supernovae
10 - The Galaxy: 10.14 - Galaxy: nucleus
11 - Galaxies: 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift, 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM
12 - Cosmology: 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe