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 B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
• Member of Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system
• Member of Commission F3 Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (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)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology, 2.9 - Black hole physics, 2.10 - Chaos, 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
7 - Planetary systems: 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.5 - Stars: black holes, 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.13 - Stars: general
11 - Galaxies: 11.2 - Galaxies: active, 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe