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 Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)

Areas of interest

2 - Physical data and processes: 2.16 - Hydrodynamics, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.8 - Reference systems
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions, 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe