IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1988-1991)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1985-1988)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.3 - Eclipses
6 - The Sun: 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.16 - Sun: infrared
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.13 - Zodiacal dust
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction