IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Chair of Commission 15 WG - TG On Asteroid Magnitudes (2012-2015)
• Past Secretary of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (2000-2003)
• Past Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation
• Past Member of Commission 15 WG - TG On Asteroid Polarimetric Albedo Calibration
• Past Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Near Earth Objects (until 2021)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 15 WG Physical Studies of Asteroids (2010-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 15 WG - TG On Asteroid Polarimetric Albedo Calibration (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (2003-2009)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Finland (2019-2023)