IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division E Sun and Heliosphere
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Division E-F-G Commission Impact of Magnetic Activity on Solar and Stellar Environments
• Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems (2018-2021)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (2003-2006)
• Past Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 35 Stellar Constitution (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 45 Stellar Classification (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IV Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.5 - Occultations, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.7 - Sun: evolution
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.19 - Stars: kinematics and dynamics, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function, 8.39 - Stars: white dwarfs
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.11 - Galaxy: halo, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content
11 - Galaxies: 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale