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17 June 2024
Results of IAU Elections for the Divisions and Commissions in the 2024-2027 Triennium
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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.  

New Divisions Steering Committees (2024-2027)

1. Participation in the DSC Elections

Division A 349 votes 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 %

2. Divisions Steering Committees (2024-2027)

Division A Fundamental Astronomy

Steering Committee Members (12 seats):

President:
Bonnie Alice Steves

Vice-President:
Christos Efthymiopoulos

Elected Members, First Term:
Ahmed Magdy Abdelaziz Moursi

Second Term Members:
Marcelo Assafin,
Anthony G.A. Brown,
Elke Pilat-Lohinger,
Vladislav Sidorenko

Ex-Officio Members (Commission Presidents):
A1: Aletha de Witt
A2: Alberto Escapa
A3: Jose Manuel Ferrándiz
A4: Giovanni Federico Gronchi

Advisor (Past Vice-President):
Daniel Hestroffer

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

Steering 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 Heritage

Steering 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 Physics

Steering 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 Heliosphere

Steering 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 Astrobiology

Steering 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 Physics

Steering 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 Universe

Steering 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 Cosmology

Steering 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

New Commissions Organizing Committees (2024-2027)

1. Participation in the COC Elections

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 108 votes 29.4%
Commission B2 80 votes 31.0%
Commission B3 73 votes 26.9%
Commission B4 175 votes 30.9%
Commission B5 44 votes 26.8%
Commission B6 45 votes 27.8%
Commission B7 27 votes 30.7%
     
Commission C1 115 votes 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%

 

2. Commissions Organizing Committees (2024-2027)

A1 Astrometry

(Total number of seats: 9)

President:
Aletha 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
Yuri Y. Kovalev

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:
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

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
Mudumba Parthasarathy

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
Priya (Hasan) Shah

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
Wen Ping CHEN
Roberto Angelo Capuzzo Dolcetta
Priya (Hasan) Shah
Laura Magrini

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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