I’m a specialist in the study of deep-time abrupt episodes of environmental and biological changes. Specifically, I’m interested in understanding the mechanisms of environmental change and biological extinction/radiation linked to global perturbations of the Earth’s system and large igneous provinces’ (LIP) volcanism. My research is multidisciplinary and includes geochemistry, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and palaeontology. I also collaborate with biogeochemical modellers to quantify and constrain the fundamental Earth’s system processes that govern the observed geochemical, physical and biological changes. My main research goals are:

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•Reconstructing changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere – ocean system.

•Constraining the temporal and cause-and-effect relationships between LIP volcanism, climate changes and biological turnovers.

•Explaining the processes that drove the observed abrupt environmental disturbances.

•Understanding the mechanisms of mass extinction in marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

•Understanding the conditions that drove evolution and the appearance of important biological traits during global environmental disturbances.

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Discover three LIP-related events I'm currently working on: