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 H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• 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 Inter-Commission B4-C3 WG Historical Radio Astronomy (Inter-Union IAU-URSI)

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (1985-1988)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (1982-1985)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 WG Historic Radio Astronomy (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.26 - Polarization, 2.27 - Radiation, 2.29 - Relativistic processes, 2.31 - Shock waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations, 6.26 - Sun: sunspots
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets
8 - Stars: 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.18 - Stars: jets, 8.25 - Stars: neutron, 8.32 - Stars: pulsars, 8.37 - Stars: supernovae
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.19 - Galaxies: jets, 11.24 - Galaxies: magnetic fields