IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission A1 Astrometry
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides
• Member of Division A WG Astrometry by Small Ground-Based Telescopes
• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 8 Astrometry (2012-2015)
• Past Vice-President of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (2018-2021)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 8 Astrometry (2009-2012)
• Past Advisor of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (2018-2021)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission A1 Astrometry (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (2006-2009)
• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy
• Past Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry
• Past Member of Division A WG Multi-Waveband Realisations of International Celestial Reference System (2016-2021)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG - TG on Preservation & Digitization of Photographic Plates (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.11 - Standards
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions, 5.8 - Reference systems
10 - The Galaxy: 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics