IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• 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: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.15 - Gravitational waves, 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.5 - Occultations, 5.6 - Parallaxes
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.28 - Sun: UV radiation
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.3 - Comets, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.13 - Zodiacal dust, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.7 - ISM: evolution, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields
10 - The Galaxy: 10.2 - Galaxy: bulge, 10.3 - Galaxy: center, 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.13 - Galaxies: halos, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions, 11.27 - Galaxies: photometry
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.8 - Cosmology: diffuse radiation, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars