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 Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.8 - Stars: coronae, 8.25 - Stars: neutron
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.14 - Galaxy: nucleus
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars