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 J Galaxies and Cosmology

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.29 - Relativistic processes, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.5 - Methods, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.9 - Time
6 - The Sun: 6.29 - Sun: X-rays, gamma rays
7 - Planetary systems: 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks, 7.13 - Zodiacal dust, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.37 - Stars: supernovae
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.5 - ISM: cosmic rays, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows
10 - The Galaxy: 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.11 - Galaxies: fundamental parameters, 11.35 - Galaxies: statistics
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.9 - Cosmology: distance scale