I'm an astronomer at the  IAC 's Scientific Editorial Service, where I work as a scientific editor revising and formatting research articles for the astronomical press. I am also a member of the editorial staff of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Astronomy Adviser to the  Oxford English Dictionary  and Editor of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal My main research is in Galactic structure and I  chair the IAU Johannes Kepler Working Group and the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Kepler Task Group.

Institution:       Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
Address:          E-38205 La Laguna
                                Tenerife
                                Spain
Telephone:      +34-922-605278
Fax:                 +34-922-605210
Email:            tjm@iac.es

• Structure of the Galaxy
• I am Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Springer Dictionary of Astronomy
•  Astrolexicography
• Use of language in astronomy
• The communication of astronomy
•  The Life and Work of Johannes Kepler
•  Life and Work of John Flamsteed
•  Navigation

• Member of the  International Astronomical Union (member of Commission 46 and the Astronomy Communication Journal Working Group under Commission 55)
• Fellow of the  Royal Astronomical Society

Click  here to see my publications.