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 H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Commission B4-C3 WG Historical Radio Astronomy (Inter-Union IAU-URSI)
• Member of Commission C4 WG Windows to the Universe: Classical and Modern Observatories

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (1985-1988)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (1982-1985)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (1988-1991)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (1988-1991)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (1985-1988)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (1979-1982)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (1976-1979)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (1967-1970)
• Past Member of Inter-Division X-XII WG Historic Radio Astronomy
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 WG Historic Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.8 - Galaxy: general
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations