IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.6 - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, 8.22 - Stars: luminosity function, mass function, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.7 - ISM: evolution, 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.7 - Galaxies: dwarf, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.32 - Galaxies: star clusters, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.3 - Cosmology: miscellaneous, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars