IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Advisor of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Commission G4 Pulsating Stars
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2021-2024)
• Past President of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters (2015-2018)
• Past Vice-President of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2018-2021)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (2012-2015)
• Past Advisor of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (2009-2012)
• Past Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development (2019-2021)
• Past Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe (2015-2021)
• Past Member of Commission C1 WG Astronomy Education Resources (AstroEDU) (2019-2020)
• Past Member of Commission C2 WG Outreach Professionalization & Accreditation (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (2011-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG Outreach Professionalization & Accreditation (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (2009-2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, 8.19 - Stars: kinematics and dynamics, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds, 11.31 - Galaxies: starburst, 11.32 - Galaxies: star clusters, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale