His research Interests are:
* Human ancient DNA: genomics, population history, selection, admixture, dispersals
* The evolution (and co-evolution) of human culture and biology
* Health in past populations and the evolution of pathogens and disease
* Human biological anthropology during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
* The anthropology and genetics of the origins and spread of agriculture
* Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Caucasus