Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (1988-1991)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (1985-1988)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (1979-1982)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (1976-1979)
• Past Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (until 2020)
• Past Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics (until 2020)
• Past Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe (until 2020)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division XII Union-Wide Activities (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
8 - Stars: 8.2 - Stars: atmospheres, 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.7 - ISM: evolution, 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.6 - Galaxy: formation, 10.8 - Galaxy: general
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation, 12.3 - Cosmology: miscellaneous, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy