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 J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics
• Member of Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions
• Member of Inter-Division B-H-J Commission Intergalactic Medium
• Member of Commission C1 WG Astronomy Competitions for Secondary School Students
• Member of Executive Committee WG Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 5 Documentation & Astronomical Data (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 5 WG Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)

Other past affiliation(s)

• Past Member of the National Committee for Astronomy in India (2012-2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.13 - Gravitation, 2.14 - Gravitational lensing, 2.16 - Hydrodynamics, 2.27 - Radiation, 2.28 - Radiative transfer
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.5 - Methods, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
11 - Galaxies: 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.10 - Galaxies: formation, 11.13 - Galaxies: halos
12 - Cosmology: 12.5 - Cosmology: theory, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, 12.13 - Cosmology: dark ages, reionization, first stars