Research interests

Life, ecology and deposition in continental-to-marine transitional realms of the early Palaeozoic and late Neoproterozoic

Cambrian & Ordovician life and deposition ("small shelly fossils", trace fossils, molluscs, arthropods, sponges, stratigraphy, palaeogeography, sedimentary facies patterns, evolution, ecosystems; southern and Central Europe, Near and Middle East, North Africa)

Palaeoecology and sedimentology of Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic marine and continental systems

Carbonate microfacies

Palaeobiological and sedimentological facies analysis (focus: early Palaeozoic)

Foraminiferan stratigraphy and environments (Late Cretaceous)

Applied palaeontology & stratigraphy for interim and ultimate storage exploration, for mineral exploration and for engineering geology