IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Inter-Division A-F Commission Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects
• Member of Commission B4 WG Global VLBI Alliance

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (2013-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 31 Time (2013-2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.13 - Gravitation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.8 - Reference systems, 5.9 - Time
6 - The Sun: 6.14 - Sun: helioseismology
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.25 - Stars: neutron, 8.32 - Stars: pulsars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae
10 - The Galaxy: 10.2 - Galaxy: bulge, 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.4 - Galaxies: bulges
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy