IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• 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: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.11 - Elementary particles, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.15 - Gravitational waves, 2.29 - Relativistic processes
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
6 - The Sun: 6.7 - Sun: evolution
7 - Planetary systems: 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.37 - Stars: supernovae, 8.39 - Stars: white dwarfs
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions, 11.25 - Galaxies: nuclei, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars, 11.31 - Galaxies: starburst
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe