• Upper mantle and deep crust petrology
• Interactions between metasomatic fluids and mantle peridotites
• Sulphides deposits and their genesis
• X-ray computed microtomography applications

Ongoing projects:

• International continental scientific drilling program (ICDP), DIVE project (Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE).

• Study of sulphide phases in the carbonated-hosted Pb-Zn ore deposits of the Southern Alps. (Research agreement)