IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Commission B4-C3 WG Historical Radio Astronomy (Inter-Union IAU-URSI)

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (1988-1991)
• Past Member of Commission B2 WG Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates (2019-2023)
• Past Member of Commission C4 WG Heritage of Space Exploration (2016-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 WG Astronomy and World Heritage (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG - TG on Preservation & Digitization of Photographic Plates (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.2 - Balloons, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous