IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission C3 History of Astronomy
• Member of Commission C5 Cultural Astronomy
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Inter-Commission C1-C2-C3-C4 WG Astronomy in Culture (WGAC) (2019-2024)
• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (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 41 WG Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (2015-2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.13 - Stars: general
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.17 - Galaxy: stellar content
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.12 - Galaxies: general, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations