Mattia Vaccari
University of the Western Cape
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Private Bag X17
Bellville
7535 Cape Town
South Africa
Phone: +27 0794254530
Personal website: http://www.mattiavaccari.net
Organization website: http://astro.uwc.ac.za
NCA adherence: South Africa
Last updated:
November 20, 2023
IAU Status
Active Member
Affiliation(s) within the IAU
Past affiliation(s) within the IAU
- Past Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission WG Reference Library of Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (RELIGAS) (2020-2021)
- Past Member of Inter-Commission B2-J1 WG From Databases to Spectral Energy Distributions (DB2SED) (2017-2020)
- Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
Areas of interest
1 - General: 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.22 - Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, 11.25 - Galaxies: nuclei, 11.31 - Galaxies: starburst
12 - Cosmology: 12.8 - Cosmology: diffuse radiation, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars