IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.16 - Hydrodynamics, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), 2.21 - Molecular processes, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
6 - The Sun: 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.18 - Sun: magnetic fields
7 - Planetary systems: 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function, 8.30 - Stars: pre-main sequence, 8.31 - Stars: protostars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.7 - ISM: evolution, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.14 - Galaxy: nucleus, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation
12 - Cosmology: 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars