IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1994-1997)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (2003-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics
6 - The Sun: 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.13 - Zodiacal dust
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.3 - Galaxy: center, 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.12 - Galaxies: general