IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Steering Committee Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division E Sun and Heliosphere
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Inter-Division B-C Commission Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites
• Member of Commission E3 Solar Impact Throughout the Heliosphere
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Inter-Division B-C Commission WG Site Protection

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Steering Committee Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (2021-2024)
• Past Member of Inter-Commission B7-C1 WG Achieving Sustainable Development within a Quality Lighting Framework (2017-2021)
• Past Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division B WG Site Testing Instruments (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Other affiliation(s)

• President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Morocco

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.5 - Occultations
6 - The Sun: 6.14 - Sun: helioseismology
7 - Planetary systems: 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.38 - Stars: variables
12 - Cosmology: 12.5 - Cosmology: theory