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 G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission C1 WG Astronomy Education Research & Methods
• Member of Division B WG Time Domain Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (2009-2012)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (2009-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG Time Domain Astronomy (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Other affiliation(s)

• Secretary of the National Committee for Astronomy in Belgium

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.15 - Gravitational waves, 2.31 - Shock waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.5 - Methods, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.5 - Occultations, 5.6 - Parallaxes
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.11 - Sun: fundamental parameters, 6.14 - Sun: helioseismology, 6.19 - Sun: oscillations, 6.26 - Sun: sunspots
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.2 - Moon, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.13 - Stars: general, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, 8.16 - Stars: horizontal-branch, 8.27 - Stars: oscillations (including pulsations), 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.3 - ISM: bubbles, 9.5 - ISM: cosmic rays, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.11 - Galaxies: fundamental parameters, 11.12 - Galaxies: general
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale, 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe