06/17/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/17/2024 02:35
The composition of the new Division Steering Committees (SC) and Commission Organising Committees (OC) for the next triennium 2024-2027, resulting from the recent elections, is below.
Elections for Divisions and Commissions occur every three years, coinciding with the General Assembly (GA) year. Elections are an essential operation for the IAU and an essential step in renewing the IAU's structures.
"We want to thank all IAU members that applied for serving at the Steering and Organising Committees", says IAU Interim General Secretary Piero Benvenuti. "We welcome our new Presidents and Vice Presidents and all committee members to actively engage with the IAU in the upcoming triennium. Altogether with our Working Groups, Divisions and Commissions are paramount to bring the IAU mission to fruition."
For the Divisions Steering Committees, 4945 votes were cast, with an average participation of 18.5% by the Division Members. For the OC, we had 3053 votes with an average participation of 34.5%.
The new Committees will start their mandate at the General Assembly that will occur in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6 to 15 August 2024.
Division A | 349votes | 17.3 % |
Division B | 778 votes | 17.9 % |
Division C | 534 votes | 19.9 % |
Division D | 446 votes | 16.8 % |
Division E | 278 votes | 19.1 % |
Division F | 521 votes | 19.8 % |
Division G | 761 votes | 19.6 % |
Division H | 598 votes | 19.2 % |
Division J | 680 votes | 17.1 % |
Division A Fundamental AstronomySteering Committee Members (12 seats):
President:
Vice-President:
Elected Members, First Term:
Second Term Members:
Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents):
Advisor (Past Vice-President): |
Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data ScienceSteering Committee Members (14 seats): President:Ana I. Gomez de Castro Vice-President: Anthony James Beasley Elected Members, First Term: Saeko S. HAYASHI Constance Elaine Walker Thomas Anne Oosterloo Second Term Members: Elizabeth Marie George Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): B1: Michiko Fujii B2: Alberto Accomazzi B3: Stefano Andreon B4: Patrick Alan Woudt B5: Randall K. Smith B6: Stefano Bagnulo B7: James Lowenthal Advisor (Past President): Gabriele Giovannini |
Division C Education, Outreach and HeritageSteering Committee Members (14 seats): President:Edward Leocadio Gomez Vice-President: Mirjana Povic Elected Members, First Term: Livia Giacomini Megan Argo Alejandro Martín Lopez Vicki Sarajedini Areg M. Mickaelian Second Term Members: Xiaochun SUN Akihiko Tomita Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): C1: Aniket Prakash Sule C2: Sylvie D. Vauclair C3: Sara Jane Schechner C4: Michael Burton C5: Steve Gullberg [New Commission] Advisor (Past President): Richard de Grijs |
Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental PhysicsSteering Committee Members (10 seats): President:Matthew Baring Vice-President: Teruaki ENOTO Elected Members, First Term: Christo Venter Julia Tjus Sara Buson Second Term Members: Nanda Rea Gustavo Romero Andreja Gomboc Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): D1: Monica Colpi Advisor (Past President): Isabelle Grenier |
Division E Sun and HeliosphereSteering Committee Members (13 seats): President:Toshifumi SHIMIZU Vice-President: Gianna Cauzzi Elected Members, First Term: Maria S. Madjarska-Theissen María Hebe Cremades Fernandez Paul S. Cally Second Term Members: Alexander Nindos, Durgesh Tripathi, Robertus Erdelyi Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): E1: Alfio Maurizio Bonanno E2: R. T. James McAteer E3: Masumi SHIMOJO E4: Dibyendu Nandi Advisor (Past President): Cristina H. Mandrini |
Division F Planetary Systems and AstrobiologySteering Committee Members (11 seats): President:Athena Coustenis Vice-President: Irina N. Belskaya Elected Members, First Term: Daniela Lazzaro Masateru ISHIGURO Cecilia Ceccarelli Second Term Members: Zouhair Benkhaldoun Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): F1: Pavel Koten F2: Miriam Rengel F3: Herve Cottin F4: Ricardo Gil-Hutton Advisor (Past President): Maria A. Barucci |
Division G Stars and Stellar PhysicsSteering Committee Members (13 seats): President:Merieme Chadid Vice-President: Lilia Ferrario Elected Members, First Term: Marc Audard Robert Szabo Annapurni Subramaniam Second Term Members: Steve Shore, Sumner Starrfield Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): G1: Ilya Mandel G2: Lida Oskinova G3: Xuefei CHEN G4: Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz G5: Simon Jeffery Advisor (Past President): Andrej Prsa |
Division H Interstellar Matter and Local UniverseSteering Committee Members (12 seats): President:Claus Leitherer Vice-President: Edvige Corbelli Elected Members, First Term: Carolina Kehrig Di LI Second Term Members: Yuri AIKAWA Roelof S. de Jong Albert Zijlstra Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): H1: Matthias Steinmetz H2: Jes Kristian Jørgensen H3: Magda Arnaboldi H4: Florent Renaud Advisor (Past President): Monica Rubio |
Division J Galaxies and CosmologySteering Committee Members (12 seats): President:Cristina Carmen Popescu Vice-President: Stephen Serjeant Elected Members, First Term: Tracy M.A. Webb Pascale M Hibon Vincenzo Mainieri Scott W. Randall Second Term Members: Lucia Marchetti Laurence Tresse Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents): J1: Ralf Siebenmorgen J2: A. Meiksin J3: Laura Pentericci Advisor (Past President): Kim-Vy Tran |
Current Commissions:
Commission A1 | 66 votes | 31.7% |
Commission A2 | 48 votes | 42.1% |
Commission A3 | 47 votes | 43.5% |
Commission A4 | 68 votes | 31.9% |
Commission B1 | 108votes | 29.4% |
Commission B2 | 80votes | 31.0% |
Commission B3 | 73votes | 26.9% |
Commission B4 | 175votes | 30.9% |
Commission B5 | 44votes | 26.8% |
Commission B6 | 45votes | 27.8% |
Commission B7 | 27votes | 30.7% |
Commission C1 | 115votes | 30.3% |
Commission C2 | 111 votes | 31.2% |
Commission C3 | 79 votes | 28.5% |
Commission C4 | 40 votes | 31.0% |
Commission D1 | 65 votes | 28.0% |
Commission E1 | 73 votes | 40.8% |
Commission E2 | 97 votes | 41.3% |
Commission E3 | 63 votes | 26.8% |
Commission E4 | 55 votes | 43.7% |
Commission F1 | 52 votes | 33.8% |
Commission F2 | 129 votes | 29.5% |
Commission F3 | 62 votes | 30.0% |
Commission F4 | 102 votes | 40.2% |
Commission G1 | 119 votes | 37.1% |
Commission G2 | 102 votes | 41.6% |
Commission G3 | 129 votes | 36.5% |
Commission G4 | 99 votes | 41.6% |
Commission G5 | 85 votes | 32.4% |
Commission H1 | 118 votes | 33.6% |
Commission H2 | 87 votes | 37.8% |
Commission H3 | 33 votes | 38.4% |
Commission H4 | 95 votes | 40.1% |
Commission J1 | 85 votes | 36.8% |
Commission J2 | 47 votes | 31.8% |
Commission J3 | 45 votes | 43.7% |
Commission X1 | 146 votes | 33.1% |
Commission X2 | 39 votes | 38.2% |
A1 Astrometry(Total number of seats: 9) President:Aleta de Witt VP (elected): David Hobbs At-large members (elected): Megan Christine Johnson Hana Krasna Second-term members: Dana Cassetti Patrick Charlot Laurent Eyer Laurent Lindegren Advisor (Past President): Christopher S. Jacobs |
A2 Rotation of the Earth(Total number of seats: 9) President:Alberto Escapa VP (elected): Jolanta Nastula At-large members (elected): Tobias Jan Nilsson Harald Schuh Mian ZHANG Second-term members: Laura I. Fernandez David A. Salstein Jean Souchay Advisor (Past President): Zinovy M. Malkin |
A3 Fundamental Standards(Total number of seats: 8) President:Jose Manuel Ferrándiz VP (elected): Agnès Fienga At-large members (elected): Andrew James Kopf Frédéric Meynadier Nicolas Rambaux Second-term members: Wendy Puatua Antonio Wilmot Advisor (Past President): Susan Gessner Stewart |
A4 Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy(Total number of seats: 8) President:Giovanni Federico Gronchi VP (elected): Catalin B. Gales At-large members (elected): Christoph H. Lhotka Second-term members: Romina Paula Di Sisto Silvia M. Giuliatti Winter Ireneusz Wlodarczyk Li-Yong ZHOU Advisor (Past President): Christos Efthymiopoulos |
B1 Computational Astrophysics(Total number of seats: 10) President:Michiko Fujii VP (elected): Jonathan Mackey At-large members (elected): Jasjeet Singh Bagla Jungyeon CHO Catherine Lovekin Surajit Paul Steven Rieder Bhargav Vaidya Second-term members: Pratika Dayal Advisor (Past President): Christian M. Boily |
B2 Data & Documentation(Total number of seats: 9) President:Alberto Accomazzi VP (elected): Andreas J. Wicenec At-large members (elected): Jennifer Lynn Bartlett Second-term members: Arpad Szomoru Sudhashu Barway David Allan Bohlender Cécile Loup Ali LUO Advisor (Past President): Chenzhou CUI |
B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics(Total number of seats: 7) President:Stefano Andreon VP (elected): Tsutomu T. TAKEUCHI At-large members (elected): Abhirup Datta Deng Shiyu Yanxia ZHANG Second-term members: Petr Skoda Advisor (Past President): Ashish Mahabal |
B4 Radio Astronomy(Total number of seats: 11) President:Patrick Alan Woudt VP (elected): Zsolt Paragi At-large members (elected): Ruta Prabhakar Kale Mamta Pommier Preshanth Jagannathan Solohery M. Randriamampandry Second-term members: Tao AN Melanie Johnston-Hollitt Cormac Reynolds Advisor (Past President): Carole A. Jackson |
B5 Laboratory Astrophysics(Total number of seats: 7) President:Randall K. Smith VP (elected): Osama M.A. Shalabiea At-large members (elected): Michael Hahn Second-term members: Perry A. Gerakines Friedrich Kupka Peng Kian Tan Advisor (Past President): Paul S. Barklem |
B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry(Total number of seats: ) President:Stefano Bagnulo VP (elected): Ernst Paunzen At-large members (elected): NONE Second-term members: Sydney A. Barnes Alberto Cellino Jamie R Lomax Advisor (Past President): J. Allyn Smith |
B7 Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites(Total number of seats: 7) President:James Lowenthal VP (elected): Ramotholo R. Sefako At-large members (elected): John C. Barentine Salvador J Ribas Second-term members: Angel Otarola Antonia M. Varela Perez Advisor (Past President): Constance Elaine Walker |
C1 Astronomy Education and Development(Total number of seats: 10) President:Aniket Prakash Sule VP (elected): Eleni Thomai Chatzichristou At-large members (elected): Gauri Sharma Alain Doressoundiram Wen Ping CHEN Second-term members: María del Carmen Argudo Fernandez Siramas Komonjinda Margarita Metaxa Carmen Aleida Pantoja Advisor (Past President): Boonrucksar Soonthornthum |
C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public(Total number of seats: 9) President:Sylvie D. Vauclair VP (elected): Vinicius de Abreu Oliveira At-large members (elected): Ali Abdul Sattar Jaber AL-EDHARI Donald A. Lubowich Niruj Mohan Ramanujam Second-term members: Marieke Baan Nathalie Brouilletà Sze-leung Cheung Advisor (Past President): Oana Sandu (Barbulete) |
C3 History of Astronomy(Total number of seats: 9) President:Sara Jane Schechner VP (elected): Michela Malpangotto At-large members (elected): Marie-Lise Dubernet Costantino Sigismondi Second-term members: David M. Baneke, Thomas Arnold Hockey, Ioannis Liritzis, Virginia Trimble Advisor (Past President): Christiaan L. Sterken |
C4 World Heritage and Astronomy(Total number of seats: 8) President:Michael Burton VP (elected): Giangiacomo Gandolfi At-large members (elected): Amanta-Aliki (Alicia) Maravelia Marc Türler Second-term members: Lydia Sonia Cidale Premana W. Premadi Gudrun Wolfschmidt Advisor (Past President): Juan Antonio Belmonte Aviles |
D1 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics(Total number of seats: 9) President:Monica Colpi VP (elected): Daniel Holz At-large members (elected): Valeriya Korol Elena Maria Rossi Pia Astone Second-term members: Masaki Ando, Ajith Parameswaran, Ryan Shannon Advisor (Past President): Peter Sven Shawhan |
E1 Solar Radiation and Structure(Total number of seats: 6) President:Alfio Maurizio Bonanno VP (elected): Kristof Petrovay At-large members (elected): Debi Prasad Choudhary Second-term members: Paul K. Rajaguru Michal Švanda Advisor (Past President): Ilaria Ermolli |
E2 Solar Activity(Total number of seats: 8) President:R. T. James McAteer VP (elected): NONE At-large members (elected): Clementina Sasso Georgios Chintzoglou Second-term members: D. Shaun Bloomfield Rebecca Centeno Shravan Hanasoge Hannah Jean Schunker Advisor (Past President): Manolis K. Georgoulis |
E3 Solar Impact throughout the Heliosphere(Total number of seats: 5) President:Masumi SHIMOJO VP (elected): Peter Thomas Gallagher At-large members (elected): NONE Second-term members: Weiqun GAN David F. Webb Advisor (Past President): Claire Foullon |
E4 Impact of Magnetic Activity on Solar and Stellar Environments(Total number of seats: 7) President:Dibyendu Nandi VP (elected): Emre Isik At-large members (elected): Shin TORIUMI Second-term members: Silva P. Järvinen Rim Fares Krisztián Vida Advisor (Past President): Heidi H. Korhonen |
F1 Meteors, Meteorites, and Interplanetary Dust(Total number of seats: 8) President:Pavel Koten VP (elected): Juraj Toth At-large members (elected): Peter Gordon Brown Aswin Sekhar Second-term members: John Plane Althea Moorhead Apostolis Christou Advisor (Past President): Margaret D. Campbell-Brown |
F2 Exoplanets and the Solar system(Total number of seats: 7) President:Miriam Rengel VP (elected): NONE At-large members (elected): Szilárd Csizmadia Second-term members: Kyriaki I. Antoniadou, Rene Heller, Eiichiro Kokomo Advisor (Past President): Jack J. Lissauer |
F3 Astrobiology(Total number of seats: 9) President:Herve Cottin VP (elected): Patricio Michel Rojo At-large members (elected): Wolf Dietrich Geppert Caterina Boccato Second-term members: Motohide Tamura John Brucato Zita Martins Christopher Impey Advisor (Past President): Joseph A. Nuth |
F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects(Total number of seats: 9) President:Ricardo Gil-Hutton VP (elected): Agnieszka Kryszczynska At-large members (elected): Oleksandra Ivanova Fernando Virgilio Roig Second-term members: Driss Takir Joseph Masiero Patrick Michel Flora Paganelli Advisor (Past President): Irina N. Belskaya |
G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems(Total number of seats: 6) President:Ilya Mandel VP (elected): Swetlana Hubrig At-large members (elected): Jaroslav Merc Second-term members: Elizabeth Griffin Laszlo Szabados Advisor (Past President): Christopher Adam Tout |
G2 Massive Stars(Total number of seats: 8) President:Lida Oskinova VP (elected): Sergio Simon-Diaz At-large members (elected): Aida Wofford Andreas A. C. Sander Takashi Moriya Second-term members: Miriam Garcia Sylvia Ekström Advisor (Past President): Nicole St-Louis |
G3 Stellar Evolution(Total number of seats: 10) President:Xuefei CHEN VP (elected): Moshe Gai At-large members (elected): Gautier Mathys Aruna Goswami Sydney A. Barnes Brian C. Chaboyer Hongwei GE Second-term members: Carlos Abia Sarunas Mikolaitis Advisor (Past President): Jacco Th. van Loon |
G4 Pulsating Stars(Total number of seats: 9) President:Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz VP (elected): Paul A. Bradley At-large members (elected): Paul G. Beck Tiago L. Campante Second-term members: Maria Pia Di Mauro Steven D. Kawaler Marcella Marconi Konstanze Zwintz Advisor (Past President): Robert Szabo |
G5 Stellar & Planetary Atmospheres(Total number of seats: 6) President:Simon Jeffery VP (elected): Daniela Korcakova At-large members (elected): Carl Andrew Schmidt Second-term members: Simone Daflon Oleg Kochukhov Advisor (Past President): Chris Sneden |
H1 Local Universe(Total number of seats: 10) President:Matthias Steinmetz VP (elected): Giovanni Carraro At-large members (elected): Laura Magrini Hai-Feng Wang Gang ZHAO Second-term members: Ahumada Andrea Kauffmann Jens Patsis Panos Sahah Priya Advisor (Past President): Gražina Tautvaisiene |
H2 Astrochemistry(Total number of seats: 8) President:Jes Kristian Jørgensen VP (elected): NONE At-large members (elected): Hideko Nomura Asuncion Fuente Brett A McGuire Second-term members: Helen Fraser Dariusz Lis Dmitry Semenov Advisor (Past President): Paola Caselli |
H3 Planetary Nebulae(Total number of seats: 7) President:Magda Arnaboldi VP (elected): David Jones At-large members (elected): Jorge García-Rojas Miguel Santander-Garcia Second-term members: Isabel R. G. Aleman Bruce Balick Advisor (Past President): Orsola De Marco |
H4 Stellar clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time(Total number of seats: 10) President:Florent Renaud VP (elected): Angela Bragaglia At-large members (elected): Flavia Dell'Agli Sydney A. Barnes Wen Ping CHEN Roberto Angelo Capuzzo Dolcetta Priya (Hasan) Shah Second-term members: Randa S. Asa'd Ignacio Neguerela Advisor (Past President): Francesca D'Antona |
J1 Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions(Total number of seats: 9) President:Ralf Siebenmorgen VP (elected): Médéric Boquien At-large members (elected): Andreas Zezas Aaron S.G. Robotham Second-term members: Ignacio P. Ferreras Elisabete da Cunha Samir Salim Advisor (Past President): Nikolaos Kylafis |
J2 Intergalactic Medium(Total number of seats: 8) President:A. Meiksin VP (elected): Stefano Cristiani At-large members (elected): Annalisa De Cia Second-term members: Wei Cui Simon Morris Matteo Viel Emma Ryan-Weber Advisor (Past President): Céline Peroux |
J3 Galaxies at the Epoch of Reionisation(Total number of seats: 7) President:Laura Pentericci VP (elected): Valentina D'Odorico At-large members (elected): Christopher J. Conselice Second-term members: Akio INOUE Roser Pello Kanak Saha Advisor (Past President): Denis Burgarella |
X1 Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution(Total number of seats: 9) President:Jong-Hak WOO VP (elected): Paolo Tozzi At-large members (elected): Dharam Vir Lal Second-term members: Myriam Gitti Isabel Marquez Jan M. Vrtilek Advisor (Past President): Christine Jones |
X2 Solar System Ephemerides(Total number of seats: 5) President:Ryan Park VP (elected): Dmitry Pavlov At-large members (elected): Daniel Hestroffer Second-term members: Davide Farnocchia Advisor (Past President): Fabrizio Bernardi |
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