IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 36 Theory of Stellar Atmospheres (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.17 - Lines, 2.23 - Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances, 2.27 - Radiation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.5 - Methods, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.12- Adaptive optics
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.8 - Reference systems
6 - The Sun: 6.1 - Sun: abundances
7 - Planetary systems: 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.10 - Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: ...
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.32 - Galaxies: star clusters, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars, 12.14 - Cosmology: primordial nucleosynthesis