IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission G5 Stellar and Planetary Atmospheres

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IV Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (until 2012)

Areas of interest

2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.5 - Occultations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.3 - Stars: chromospheres, 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.33 - Stars: rotation, 8.39 - Stars: white dwarfs