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 D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division E Sun and Heliosphere
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
• Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems
• Member of Commission G3 Stellar Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 29 Stellar Spectra (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IV Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.3 - Eclipses
6 - The Sun: 6.12 - Sun: general
7 - Planetary systems: 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.36 - Stars: supergiants
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.14 - Cosmology: primordial nucleosynthesis