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 F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 54 Optical & Infrared Interferometry (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.19 - Masers, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.5 - Occultations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters, 8.20 - Stars: late-type, 8.24 - Stars: mass-loss, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.15 - ISM: molecules, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants