IAU Status

Active Member

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (until 2023)
• Past Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2015-2023)
• Past Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (until 2023)
• Past Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe (2015-2023)
• Past Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology (until 2023)
• Past Member of Commission B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics (2015-2023)
• Past Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe (2015-2023)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 52 Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (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 XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.6 - Astroparticle physics, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.12 - Sun: general, 6.20 - Sun: particle emission, 6.25 - Sun: solar wind
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, 8.31 - Stars: protostars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.2 - ISM: atoms, 9.3 - ISM: bubbles, 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.5 - ISM: cosmic rays, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.11 - Galaxy: halo, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.12 - Galaxies: general, 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift, 11.16 - Galaxies: intergalactic medium
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe