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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Applications are now open until December 31</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 0;">st</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 2025
for new Individual and Junior Members of the IAU, using this </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24px; color: rgb(73, 109, 173); font-weight: 600;"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" title="https://www.iau.org/OpenWater/OpenWater-Login.aspx" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/gIAqC71R2NTVok4G1t8f6CobA-j?domain=iau.org">Application
Form</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(73, 109, 173); font-weight: 600;"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" title="https://www.iau.org/OpenWater/OpenWater-Login.aspx" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/gIAqC71R2NTVok4G1t8f6CobA-j?domain=iau.org">.</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If
you are new to IAU, please 'create a new account' to begin the application process. As a Junior Member, you can log in to start the application process.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Those admitted to membership (by the IAU Executive Committee) will be affiliated with at least one of the IAU’s nine Divisions:</span></p>
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A Fundamental Astronomy</a></span><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);"> </span><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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C Education, Outreach and Heritage</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics</a></span><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(73, 109, 173);"><a style="color: rgb(73, 109, 173); text-decoration: none;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAda45270f-2d6b-e4cb-af9b-d81f038b92d2" target="_blank" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/pwKkCgZ0N1iwp2OEZCEtPC4C704?domain=iau.org"> </a></span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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E Sun and Heliosphere</a></span><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology</a></span><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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G Stars and Stellar Physics</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">
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J Galaxies and Cosmology</a></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 600;">IAU Individual Membership</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eligible candidates for IAU Individual Membership are professional scientists conducting research that is directly related to astronomy.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 600;">IAU Junior Membership</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eligible candidates for IAU Junior Membership are those in the initial phase of a research career with the prospect of becoming a professional researcher in astronomy.
For this round of applications, candidates should have completed their PhD studies in any field of astronomy between 2020 and 2025. Admission as a Junior Member will be for a maximum period of six years.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Junior Members can join
</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);"><a style="color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA3ddd07fd-813a-ccbb-081a-928fa94bc9fb" target="_blank" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/aAVVCoV1kpfPZzj23UES2Cpqdvi?domain=iau.org">Commissions</a></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(73, 109, 173);"><a style="color: rgb(73, 109, 173); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAd65b8e9b-64a6-3ad1-3495-279bbb65fd85" target="_blank" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/aAVVCoV1kpfPZzj23UES2Cpqdvi?domain=iau.org"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">and
</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);"><a style="color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAe744720e-20d4-fcc9-5231-d3c9aea5d34a" target="_blank" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yz2WCp81lrtOK8143t3TyCG9GAH?domain=iau.org">Working
Groups</a></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> according to the same rules as Individual Members. Junior Members can take up any role in any Working Group and can hold office in the Organising Committee
of any Commission. However, Junior Members cannot take roles as Commission President or Vice President, except in Commissions specifically established for Junior Members.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We remind current Junior Members who joined the IAU in 2020 that junior membership is temporary and that they should apply as Individual Members in this call.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Following the December 31</span><span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 0;">st</span><span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 2025
deadline, applications will first be reviewed by the IAU National Committee for Astronomy (NCA) or Adhering Organisation (AO) (whichever applies) of the National Member in which the applicant works, or the relevant Division President (where there is no NCA
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<span style="font-family: Poppins, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The lists of proposed candidates will subsequently be reviewed by the IAU Membership Committee which will submit a final list to the Executive Committee for approval
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Prof. Virginia Kilborn</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Swinburne’s campuses
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