IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (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: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.4 - Sun: chromosphere
7 - Planetary systems: 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function, 8.30 - Stars: pre-main sequence
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.20 - Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars