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 A1 Astrometry
• Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics (until 2021)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.2 - Balloons, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.5 - Occultations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects