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 G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• 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

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 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
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.3 - Eclipses
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.4 - Sun: chromosphere, 6.26 - Sun: sunspots
7 - Planetary systems: 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.1 - Stars: abundances, 8.2 - Stars: atmospheres, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.15 - Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.1 - Galaxies: abundances, 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.37 - Galaxies: structure
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe