IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
• Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 30 Radial Velocities (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.10 - Chaos, 2.19 - Masers, 2.27 - Radiation
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.5 - Methods, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics
10 - The Galaxy: 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.11 - Galaxies: fundamental parameters
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.14 - Cosmology: primordial nucleosynthesis