IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Vice-President of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Organizing Committee Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution
• Member of Commission C2 WG CAP Conferences
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage (2021-2024)
• Past Member of Commission C2 WG Outreach Professionalization & Accreditation (2016-2018)
• Past Member of Commission C2 WG Public Outreach Information Management (2016-2018)
• Past Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (2015-2016)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.7 - Sociology of Astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.4 - Acceleration of particles, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.6 - Astroparticle physics, 2.9 - Black hole physics
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.5 - Methods, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.12- Adaptive optics
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.13 - Stars: general, 8.27 - Stars: oscillations (including pulsations)
10 - The Galaxy: 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.14 - Galaxy: nucleus, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe