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 Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution
• Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics
• Member of Inter-Commission B4-C3 WG Historical Radio Astronomy (Inter-Union IAU-URSI)

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (1982-1985)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (1979-1982)
• Past Chair of Commission 40 WG Historic Radio Astronomy (2010-2015)
• Past Chair of Inter-Division X-XII WG Historic Radio Astronomy (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (1985-1988)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 48 High-Energy Astrophysics (1979-1982)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (1976-1979)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 48 High-Energy Astrophysics (1976-1979)
• Past Member of Commission 48 High-Energy Astrophysics
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (2003-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 WG The Radio Astronomy Definition of Continuum Flux Density in Broad-Band SED Observations (2014-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past President of the National Committee for Astronomy in United States (2016-2019)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.7 - Sociology of Astronomy
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.4 - Acceleration of particles, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.27 - Radiation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.3 - Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.3 - Cosmology: miscellaneous, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale