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 H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Executive Committee WG Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion

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, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.6 - Astroparticle physics, 2.8 - Atomic processes, 2.28 - Radiative transfer, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.5 - Occultations
6 - The Sun: 6.3 - Sun: atmosphere, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.7 - Sun: evolution
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.10 - ISM: Herbig-Haro objects
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions, 11.31 - Galaxies: starburst, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy