IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 21 Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.4 - Miscellaneous, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.5 - Accretion, accretion disks, 2.24 - Opacity, 2.26 - Polarization, 2.27 - Radiation, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
6 - The Sun: 6.5 - Sun: corona
7 - Planetary systems: 7.5 - Interplanetary medium, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.11 - Protoplanetary disks
8 - Stars: 8.10 - Stars: formation
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae
11 - Galaxies: 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation