IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division E Sun and Heliosphere
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 30 Radial Velocities (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), 2.27 - Radiation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.9 - Time
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.10 - Sun: flares, 6.18 - Sun: magnetic fields, 6.20 - Sun: particle emission
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.20 - Stars: late-type, 8.25 - Stars: neutron, 8.26 - Stars: novae, cataclysmic variables, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type, 8.39 - Stars: white dwarfs
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.5 - ISM: cosmic rays, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields, 9.15 - ISM: molecules, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances, 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.10 - Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: ..., 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.21 - Galaxies: Local Group, 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds, 11.24 - Galaxies: magnetic fields, 11.27 - Galaxies: photometry
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.3 - Cosmology: miscellaneous, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe