IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 7 Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 31 Time (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 52 Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.15 - Gravitational waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.8 - Reference systems, 5.9 - Time
7 - Planetary systems: 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, 8.32 - Stars: pulsars
10 - The Galaxy: 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale