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 H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• 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, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.17 - Lines, 2.19 - Masers
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.2 - Atlases
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.18 - Sun: magnetic fields, 6.22 - Sun: radio radiation
7 - Planetary systems: 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.18 - Stars: jets, 8.31 - Stars: protostars, 8.40- Stars: Wolf-Rayet
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.7 - ISM: evolution, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.13 - ISM: lines and bands, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars