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 Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Commission C5 Cultural Astronomy
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Inter-Commission C1-C2-C3-C4 WG Astronomy in Culture (WGAC) (2016-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 WG Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (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, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.16 - Hydrodynamics, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.26 - Sun: sunspots
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.2 - Stars: atmospheres, 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.18 - Stars: jets, 8.33 - Stars: rotation
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.10 - ISM: Herbig-Haro objects, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields