IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Steering Committee Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics (2018-2021)
• Past Member of Commission 44 Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics (until 2012)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past Member of the National Committee for Astronomy in India (2012-2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.4 - Acceleration of particles, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.12 - Equation of state, 2.18 - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), 2.27 - Radiation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.9 - Time
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst, 8.23 - Stars: magnetars, 8.25 - Stars: neutron, 8.32 - Stars: pulsars
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.11 - ISM: jets and outflows, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics