We conduct interdisciplinary research pursuing two overarching goals: to produce new knowledge about the carbon cycle in modern environments and to reconstruct the past climate of our planet.

The global carbon cycle has undergone drastic changes since the Industrial Revolution, experiencing variations in the size of the carbon reservoirs and the fluxes among them. In this field, our group aims to:

1. Investigate organic matter dynamics using a source-to-sink approach to constrain the processes determining organic carbon fluxes among reservoirs and organic carbon burial.
2. To produce novel information on the synthesis, transport, and burial of lipid biomarkers in different ecosystems.
3. To assess the ecological preferences of phytoplankton groups with the potential to capture carbon and sequester it in sediments.

Anthropogenic climate change is a major growing societal concern due to its potential unforeseen impacts on societies and ecosystems. Paleoclimate records extend instrumental records of climate variables and climate drivers back in time and can place constraints on future predictions by informing models. Such reconstructions provide the long-term context needed to gauge the extent to which recent and potential future changes are unusual. In this context, our research aims to:

1. Quantify the impact of hydrodynamic transport on proxy carriers and climate signals to identify and account for biases in paleoclimate reconstructions.
2. Provide effective analogs for the future by multiproxy approaches from different climate archives.