Research Interests:

• sedimentology and stratigraphy of events in Earth history
• past and present global change
• Anthropocene definition and markers
• geodynamics and basin formation in Alpine mountain belts
• isotope stratigraphy

Current professional service activities:

• Study Program Director SPL28
• Commitee member of the Österreichische Geologische Gesellschaft
• Associate Editor of the Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Member of the editorial boards of Geologica Carpathica and Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Vice-Chair of the Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and Member of the Working Group on the ‘Anthropocene’

Current Projects:

• Anisian Carbonate Reservoir Property Project [ACRP Project] (cooperation with OMV)
• The Anthropocene Surge - evolution, expansion and depth of Vienna’s urban environment
• Middle Triassic Carbonate reservoir rocks [Mid-Triassic Project] (cooperation with OMV)
• UNESCO IGCP 609, Climate-environmental deteriorations during greenhouse phases: Causes and consequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-level changes

Link: Full Publication List