My principal research area is the origin and evolution of the Lithosphere. I address scientific questions by a multidisciplinary approach including field work, petrology, isotope geochemistry, structural geology, major & trace element geochemistry.  For field work I generally use my feet & brain but I also incorporate more “modern” methods (remote sensing techniques using  hyperspectral data, GIS etc.). In detail I am interested in:

-Field studies on magmatic processes

-magmatic accretion of continental crust in subduction zone.

-oceanic crust evolution

-formation and evolution of the ocean-continent transition zone

-evolution of continental crust formation mechanism though earth history