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 J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission A3 Fundamental Standards
• Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission B2 WG Designations & Nomenclature
• Member of Commission B2 WG FITS
• Member of Division B WG Time Domain Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation (2018-2021)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 5 WG FITS (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division B WG Information Professionals (2016-2021)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG Designations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG FITS (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division A WG Redefinition of UTC (2013-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG Time Domain Astronomy (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.4 - Miscellaneous, 1.5 - Publications, bibliography, 1.11 - Standards
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.8 - Reference systems, 5.9 - Time
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.20 - Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, 11.30 - Galaxies: spiral, 11.35 - Galaxies: statistics, 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale