IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology
• Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.15 - Gravitational waves, 2.29 - Relativistic processes
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.25 - Stars: neutron, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows
10 - The Galaxy: 10.3 - Galaxy: center, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars