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 F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides
• Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Cartographic Coordinates & Rotational Elements

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Chair of Commission 15 WG Physical Studies of Asteroids (2012-2015)
• Past Chair of Commission 15 WG - TG On Asteroid Polarimetric Albedo Calibration (until 2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 16 Physical Study of Planets & Satellites (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 16 Physical Study of Planets & Satellites (1991-1994)
• Past Member of Commission 6 Astronomical Telegrams (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 16 Physical Study of Planets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 15 WG - TG On Asteroid Magnitudes (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.4 - Miscellaneous, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.11 - Standards
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.9 - Time
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites: