IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission A1 Astrometry

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.4 - Miscellaneous
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.27 - Radiation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.11 - Sun: fundamental parameters, 6.12 - Sun: general, 6.25 - Sun: solar wind
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.10 - Stars: formation
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae
10 - The Galaxy: 10.3 - Galaxy: center, 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.10 - Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: ..., 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.32 - Galaxies: star clusters, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars