IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Division B-C Commission Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution
• Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics
• Member of Commission B4 WG Global VLBI Alliance

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Inter-Commission B7-C1 WG Achieving Sustainable Development within a Quality Lighting Framework (2017-2021)
• Past Member of Inter-Division B-C Commission WG Technical Working Group (2016-2021)
• Past Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (2015-2016)
• Past Member of Commission C2 WG Outreach Professionalization & Accreditation (2015-2016)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG New Media (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG Outreach Professionalization & Accreditation (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 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
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.6 - Astroparticle physics, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.5 - Methods, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.9 - Techniques
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.19 - Galaxies: jets, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars, 11.35 - Galaxies: statistics
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale