1. Lithostratigraphy of the units of the Lower Palaeozoic of the Carnic Alps.
2. Biostratigraphy, taxonomy, palaeogeography, and palaeoecology of Devonian-Carboniferous conodonts from the Carnic Alps, Sardinia, and Montagne Noire (France).
3, Detailed litho- , bio-stratigraphic and sedimentologic analysis, and isotopic stratigraphy of stratigraphic sections at the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) and Famennian-Touranisian (Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous) boundary in the Carnic Alps, and comparison with data from other geographic areas.
4. Event stratigraphy of Frasnian and Famennian stratigraphic sections of the Carnic Alps.
