IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• President of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Chair of Division B WG UV Astronomy
• Steering Committee Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division B WG UV Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Vice-President of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), 2.25 - Plasmas, 2.31 - Shock waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys
6 - The Sun: 6.15 - Sun: heliosphere, 6.25 - Sun: solar wind, 6.28 - Sun: UV radiation
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.18 - Stars: jets, 8.21 - Stars: low-mass, 8.36 - Stars: supergiants
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields
10 - The Galaxy: 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.13 - Galaxies: halos
12 - Cosmology: 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy