IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.11 - Standards
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.8 - Reference systems
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud
8 - Stars: 8.19 - Stars: kinematics and dynamics
10 - The Galaxy: 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood