IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (1991-1994)
• 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 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.3 - Eclipses
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.3 - Comets, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects