Research summary: His main research topics summarized in environmental sedimentology, paleoceanography, chemostratigraphy, marine petroleum systems and the exploitation of natural energy resources, intergrated bio-cyclo-tephro-stratigraphy, calibration-validation and the application of geochemical proxies for sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS), Holocene sea-level variations and ocean/climate changes during the Quaternary Period.

He has particularly worked on sedimentological and paleoceanographic reconstructions at different time scales by means of marine cores and land sections and related processes.