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 J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy
• Member of Commission C4 WG Windows to the Universe: Classical and Modern Observatories

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Inter-Commission B7-C4 WG Windows to the Universe: High-Mountain Observatories, and Other Astronomical Sites of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries (2016-2019)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.12 - Galaxies: general, 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift
12 - Cosmology: 12.3 - Cosmology: miscellaneous, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars