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 D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
• Member of Commission H1 The Local Universe
• Member of Inter-Division D-G-H-J Commission Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions
• Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission 28 Galaxies (2009-2012)
• Past Vice-President of Commission 28 Galaxies (2006-2009)
• Past Co-Chair of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics (2016-2024)
• Past Co-Chair of Division B WG Future Large Scale Facilities (until 2015)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Executive Committee WG Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics (2018-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (2009-2012)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (2006-2009)
• Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (2006-2012)

Areas of interest

3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
10 - The Galaxy: 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.14 - Galaxy: nucleus
11 - Galaxies: 11.5 - Galaxies: clusters, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.36 - Galaxies: stellar content
12 - Cosmology: 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.11 - Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe