IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics
• Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)

Other affiliation(s)

• President of the National Committee for Astronomy in India

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.8 - Reference systems
8 - Stars: 8.25 - Stars: neutron
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.10 - Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: ...
12 - Cosmology: 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars