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 J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B5 Laboratory Astrophysics
• Member of Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1988-1991)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1985-1988)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (2012-2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (2003-2006)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1994-1997)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1982-1985)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1979-1982)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (1979-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (2009-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 15 WG - TG On Asteroid Polarimetric Albedo Calibration (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (2003-2009)

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
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.7 - Space vehicles, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.2 - Celestial mechanics
7 - Planetary systems: 7.2 - Moon, 7.3 - Comets, 7.5 - Interplanetary medium, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general