IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past General Secretary of Executive Committee (2000-2003)
• Past Assistant General Secretary of Executive Committee (1997-2000)
• Past Advisor of Executive Committee (2003-2006)
• Past President of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1997-2000)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1994-1997)
• Past Advisor of Special Nominating Committee (2000-2003)
• Past Advisor of Special Nominating Committee (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1988-1991)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (1988-1991)
• Past Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Near Earth Objects (until 2021)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (until 2015)
• Past Member of Hazards of Near-Planetary Objects (until 2014)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.14 - Exoplanets
10 - The Galaxy: 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations