My main interest is the mathematical modeling of coastal processes, in particular, coastal geomorphology. My tools are applied mathematics, partial differential equations and numerical modelling. I started working on nearshore low frequency waves like edge waves and vorticity waves. For most of the time I have investigated the dynamics of nearshore beach profile, sand bars, sand banks and sand waves. In particular, I have focused to unravel the feedback mechanisms behind emerging self-organized morphological patterns. More recently I have shifted to the effect of climate change on the present and future behavior of beaches. One of my main goals has been to develop Q2Dmorfo, a reduced-complexity model to study coastal morphology at large length and time scales, which is specially suited to long term coastal behavior under mean sea level rise.

My long teaching activity includes elementary and advanced classical mechanics, continuum mechanics, fluid dynamics, calculus, differential equations, numerical analysis and coastal morphodynamics. At present I teach elementary classical mechanics at the Bachelor degrees in Marine Science and Technology and in Geoinformation and Geomatics Engineering, at UPC.