Research interests are in the general areas of igneous and metamorphic petrology and Earth volatiles cycling and include:
1) Deep Earth Carbon Cycle and diamond genesis.
2) Modelling of fluid phase behaviour during subduction of oceanic and continental lithosphere.
3) Characterization of mantle metasomatic processes in different geodynamic settings.
4) Relations between recent magmatism and geodynamics in Italy.
5) Applications and development of Raman micro-spectroscopy in the Earth and environmental
sciences.