IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Chair of Finance Committee
• Steering Committee Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects
• Member of Executive Committee WG Women in Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Vice-President of Executive Committee (2021-2024)
• Past Vice-President of Executive Committee (2018-2021)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2012-2015)
• Past Chair of Resolutions Committee (2009-2012)
• Past Chair of Executive Committee WG IAU General Assemblies (2009-2012)
• Past Secretary of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2009-2012)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Executive Committee WG Women in Astronomy (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Executive Committee WG Women in Astronomy (2018-2021)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2006)
• Past Member of Membership Committee (2015-2018)
• 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 (2003-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (2009-2012)
• Past Member of Executive Committee WG Small Bodies Nomenclature (SBN) (2003-2009)
• Past Member of Editorial Board (2005-2005)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Brazil

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.4 - Miscellaneous
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects