IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (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, 2.15 - Gravitational waves, 2.20 - Molecular data, 2.31 - Shock waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.18 - Sun: magnetic fields, 6.29 - Sun: X-rays, gamma rays
7 - Planetary systems: 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.5 - Interplanetary medium, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.30 - Stars: pre-main sequence, 8.31 - Stars: protostars, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.10 - ISM: Herbig-Haro objects, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation, 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.12 - Cosmology: inflation