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 C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission A1 Astrometry
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution
• Member of Commission G4 Pulsating Stars

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Steering Committee Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 35 Stellar Constitution (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 36 Theory of Stellar Atmospheres (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 54 Optical & Infrared Interferometry (until 2015)

Areas of interest

2 - Physical data and processes: 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
7 - Planetary systems: 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters, 8.24 - Stars: mass-loss
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction
10 - The Galaxy: 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale