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 D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past Chair of the National Committee for Astronomy in South Africa (2013-2014)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.17 - Lines, 2.23 - Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.9 - Time
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.19 - Stars: kinematics and dynamics
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.20 - Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe