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 C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
• Member of Special Nominating Committee

Other affiliation(s)

• Secretary of the National Committee for Astronomy in Turkey

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: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.12- Adaptive optics
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.26 - Stars: novae, cataclysmic variables, 8.38 - Stars: variables
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.11 - Galaxies: fundamental parameters, 11.12 - Galaxies: general, 11.15 - Galaxies: interactions, 11.16 - Galaxies: intergalactic medium, 11.22 - Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content, 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe