IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology
• Member of Inter-Division G-H Commission Planetary Nebulae

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (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, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.17 - Lines, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), 2.31 - Shock waves
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.12 - Sun: general, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations, 6.25 - Sun: solar wind
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.2 - Moon, 7.3 - Comets, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.13 - Stars: general
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances, 9.3 - ISM: bubbles, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae
10 - The Galaxy: 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
11 - Galaxies: 11.12 - Galaxies: general
12 - Cosmology: 12.3 - Cosmology: miscellaneous