IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Co-Chair of Inter-Division B-C Commission WG Site Protection
• Steering Committee Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Organizing Committee Member of Commission C5 Cultural Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Inter-Division B-C Commission Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission C5 Cultural Astronomy
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Executive Committee WG Exoplanetary System Nomenclature
• Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics
• Member of Inter-Division B-C Commission WG Site Protection

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Secretary of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Inter-Commission C1-C2-C3-C4 WG Astronomy in Culture (WGAC) (2021-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.17 - Lines, 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
7 - Planetary systems: 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.31 - Stars: protostars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields