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 Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.7 - Sociology of Astronomy, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology, 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.4 - Acceleration of particles, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.10 - Chaos
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
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, 5.5 - Occultations, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.14 - Sun: helioseismology, 6.18 - Sun: magnetic fields, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations, 6.29 - Sun: X-rays, gamma rays
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.5 - Interplanetary medium, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.12 - Planet-disk interactions, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.23 - Stars: magnetars, 8.31 - Stars: protostars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.14 - Cosmology: primordial nucleosynthesis