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 Inter-Division B-C Commission Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites
• Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy
• Member of Commission C4 WG Windows to the Universe: Classical and Modern Observatories

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 Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.3 - Eclipses
6 - The Sun: 6.5 - Sun: corona
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.13 - Zodiacal dust
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics
10 - The Galaxy: 10.8 - Galaxy: general
11 - Galaxies: 11.12 - Galaxies: general
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations