IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Chair of Commission 22 WG Professional-Amateur Cooperation in Meteors (2012-2012)
• Past Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Near Earth Objects (until 2021)
• Past Member of Commission C2 WG CAP Journal (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG CAP Journal (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.5 - Occultations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction