Galaxy evolution; mass-assembly and SFRD; structure of passive early-type galaxies at high redshift; automatic tools for morphological analysis of high-z galaxies; spectroscopy of high redshift galaxies; Lyman? emitters; observational cosmology.

= Phd thesis supervisor, student Rosamaria Carraro, "The growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies: co-evolution and regulation of the star formation activity", since august 2015
= Phd thesis supervisor, student Hugo Méndez Hérnandez, PhD thesis supervisor, “a multiphase view of the gas content of galaxies at z~2”, since march 2015
= supervisor of the postdoc Romain Thomas, Gemini-CONICYT project “A multi-wavelength approach to identify the mechanisms that regulate star-formation in high-z galaxies”, June 2015 - June 2017
= Phd thesis co-supervisor, student Pin-Wei Wang, “Star formation rate and the assemblyof galaxies in the early universe”, January 2011 - June 2014
= Senior Thesis co-supervisor, student Francesco Valentino, “The dependence of the mass-size relation of early-type galaxies at redshift 0.2 < z < 1”, October 2012 - June 2013
= Mentor for the internship at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), student Francesco Valentino, “The dependence of the mass-size relation of early-type galaxies at redshift 0.2 < z < 1”, July 2012 - September 2012
= Support for LAM graduate students Romain Thomas, Bin- Wei Wang, Anna Durkalec, July 2011 - June 2014
= Senior Thesis supervisor, student Peter Panka, “An Upper Limit to the Dry Merger Fraction from z=0 to z=1”, September 2010-June 2011
= Mentor for the University of Massachusetts REU summer program, student Peter Panka, “An Upper Limit to the Dry Merger Fraction from z=0 to z=1”, Summer 2010
= Mentor for the University of Massachusetts REU summer program, student Peter Panka, “The size distribution of massive early-type galaxies in SDSS as a function of the wavelength”, Summer 2009
= Support for University of Massachusetts graduate students Christina Williams, Yicheng Guo, Bomee Lee, Jul 2008 - Jun 2011
= Mentor and support for LAM master student Yann Boehler, Spring 2007