IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• President of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Steering Committee Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Organizing Committee Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics
• Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Vice-President of Commission H1 The Local Universe (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 30 Radial Velocities (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 30 Radial Velocities (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Special Nominating Committee (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Germany (2014-2017)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.16 - Hydrodynamics
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.11 - Stars: evolution
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances, 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.1 - Galaxies: abundances, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift, 11.21 - Galaxies: Local Group
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.14 - Cosmology: primordial nucleosynthesis