His research interests cover a broad range of topics in Marine Sciences: marine geology, seabed methane seepages, marine pollution, marine habitat mapping and marine geoarchaeology. He serves as director of Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programs in “Environmental Sciences” and in “Oceanography”. He is/was coordinator of many national, international and EU-funded research projects and has carried out oceanographic campaigns in Aegean and Ionian Archipelagos and in the Mediterranean Sea. He has also conducted many projects on marine and offshore construction (pipelines, power and telecommunication cables, harbours, oil platforms, wind farms). He has published more than one hundred (131) articles in International Refereed Journals with more than 5,000 citations (h-index: 33-41) and more than 130 research papers in Book chapters and International Conferences in the field of Marine Science and Technology.