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 F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission A1 Astrometry
• Member of Commission A3 Fundamental Standards
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides
• Member of Division A WG Astrometry by Small Ground-Based Telescopes

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Vice-President of Commission 4 Ephemerides (2012-2015)
• Past Chair of Inter-Commission 4-7-8-16-20 WG Natural Planetary Satellites (2006-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1988-1991)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1985-1988)
• Past Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (1994-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 4 WG Standardizing Access to Ephemerides (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG - TG on Preservation & Digitization of Photographic Plates (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.5 - Occultations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites: