IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 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: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.20 - Molecular data
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.12- Adaptive optics
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.3 - Galaxy: center
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM, 11.25 - Galaxies: nuclei, 11.29 - Galaxies: Seyfert