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 G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.9 - Black hole physics
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.5 - Occultations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.13 - Stars: general, 8.26 - Stars: novae, cataclysmic variables, 8.38 - Stars: variables
10 - The Galaxy: 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.3 - Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects, 11.29 - Galaxies: Seyfert