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 J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (until 2018)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.29 - Relativistic processes
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.9 - Techniques
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.14 - Stars: Gamma-ray burst
10 - The Galaxy: 10.3 - Galaxy: center, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.3 - Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects, 11.19 - Galaxies: jets, 11.28 - Galaxies: quasars, 11.29 - Galaxies: Seyfert
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations