IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (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 46 Astronomy Education & Development (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 XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

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: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
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: 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.12 - Sun: general
7 - Planetary systems: 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.13 - Stars: general
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics
10 - The Galaxy: 10.3 - Galaxy: center, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.12 - Galaxies: general
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe