IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Chair of Membership Committee
• Steering Committee Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Division G WG Active B Stars

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Chair of Membership Committee (2021-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 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
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, 8.16 - Stars: horizontal-branch, 8.39 - Stars: white dwarfs
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions
10 - The Galaxy: 10.10 - Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: ..., 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations
11 - Galaxies: 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content