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 F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects
• Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Cartographic Coordinates & Rotational Elements

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Secretary of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (2015-2018)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (2015-2018)
• Past Member of Commission 16 Physical Study of Planets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.29 - Relativistic processes
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.4 - Ephemerides
7 - Planetary systems: 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets