IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B4 Radio Astronomy
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (1994-1997)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (1991-1994)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (2006-2009)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (2000-2003)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (1997-2000)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (1997-2000)
• Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
7 - Planetary systems: 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs