IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 29 Stellar Spectra (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IV Stars (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.4 - Sun: chromosphere, 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.11 - Sun: fundamental parameters, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.3 - Stars: chromospheres, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.20 - Stars: late-type, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances, 9.4 - ISM: clouds
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content
11 - Galaxies: 11.1 - Galaxies: abundances, 11.21 - Galaxies: Local Group, 11.30 - Galaxies: spiral, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.14 - Cosmology: primordial nucleosynthesis