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 F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.19 - Masers, 2.20 - Molecular data, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.4 - Ephemerides
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.22 - Sun: radio radiation, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.31 - Stars: protostars, 8.32 - Stars: pulsars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars