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 Commission C3 History of Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (2003-2015)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.13 - Interferometry
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.8 - Reference systems
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields
10 - The Galaxy: 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.35 - Galaxies: statistics
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy