IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Division VII Galactic System (2000-2003)
• Past President of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (2000-2003)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (1997-2000)
• Past Advisor of Division VII Galactic System (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division VII Galactic System (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division VII Galactic System (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (1991-1994)
• Past Member of Commission 30 Radial Velocities (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)
• Past Member of Resolutions Committee (2003-2006)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.11 - Galaxies: fundamental parameters
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations