IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission C1 WG Astronomy Competitions for Secondary School Students
• Member of Commission C2 WG CAP Conferences
• Member of Executive Committee WG Small Bodies Nomenclature (SBN)

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (2006-2009)
• Past Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Near Earth Objects (2010-2021)
• Past Member of Commission C1 WG Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE) (2015-2021)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2006-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG CAP Conferences (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: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.5 - Occultations
6 - The Sun: 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects
8 - Stars: 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.37 - Stars: supernovae