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 F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
• Member of Commission G4 Pulsating Stars
• Member of Commission G5 Stellar and Planetary Atmospheres

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 45 Stellar Classification (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy
• Past Member of Commission G5 WG Stellar Spectral Libraries (2017-2021)
• Past Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe (2015-2017)
• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 29 Stellar Spectra (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 45 Stellar Classification (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.6 - Parallaxes
6 - The Sun: 6.25 - Sun: solar wind, 6.26 - Sun: sunspots
8 - Stars: 8.2 - Stars: atmospheres, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.17 - Stars: interiors, 8.27 - Stars: oscillations (including pulsations), 8.38 - Stars: variables
10 - The Galaxy: 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.1 - Galaxies: abundances, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.21 - Galaxies: Local Group, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content, 11.37 - Galaxies: structure