IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• President of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions
• Steering Committee Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Organizing Committee Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Vice-President of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (2018-2021)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• 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: 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.24 - Opacity, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.28 - Radiative transfer, 2.30 - Scattering, 2.32 - Solid state
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction
10 - The Galaxy: 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.31 - Galaxies: starburst