IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• 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 B1 Computational Astrophysics
• 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 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.10 - Chaos, 2.13 - Gravitation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.7 - Proper motions
10 - The Galaxy: 10.2 - Galaxy: bulge, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.11 - Galaxy: halo, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.4 - Galaxies: bulges, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.12 - Galaxies: general, 11.20 - Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter