IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Steering Committee Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation
• Member of Commission B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
• Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy
• Member of Commission C5 Cultural Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions
• Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics
• Member of Commission B2 WG Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates
• Member of Division B WG Virtual Observatory

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy (2018-2021)
• Past Member of Inter-Commission C1-C2-C3-C4 WG Astronomy in Culture (WGAC) (2016-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 29 Stellar Spectra (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (2014-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 WG Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 WG Astronomy and World Heritage (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG - TG on Preservation & Digitization of Photographic Plates (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IV Stars (until 2012)

Other affiliation(s)

• President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Armenia

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.1 - Asteroseismology, 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity
7 - Planetary systems: 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.38 - Stars: variables, 8.39 - Stars: white dwarfs
10 - The Galaxy: 10.8 - Galaxy: general
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars, 11.31 - Galaxies: starburst
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations