Research Interests

My research interests concern predominantly the large-scale ocean circulation and its variability on a range of time scales, including those that are resolved by paleoclimate records such as sediment core records. I am also interested in the biogeochemical cycle of organic carbon and of particle-reactive substances in the deep sea.

My research strategy operates along two lines:

1. I combine observations with models using inverse methods in order to address estimation problems in oceanography, paleoceanography, and chemical oceanography.
2. I apply numerical models in order to study fundamental aspects of ocean circulation and to test the plausibility of research hypotheses about its variability.