IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission C2 WG CAP Journal (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG CAP Journal (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 WG New Media (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.21 - Molecular processes, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.9 - Time
7 - Planetary systems: 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.30 - Stars: pre-main sequence, 8.31 - Stars: protostars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows
10 - The Galaxy: 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood