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 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, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.27 - Radiation, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.12 - Sun: general
7 - Planetary systems: 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.27 - Stars: oscillations (including pulsations)
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.5 - ISM: cosmic rays, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction
10 - The Galaxy: 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.8 - Cosmology: diffuse radiation, 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe