He is director of the Paediatric Neurology and Psychiatry and the Department of Developmental Neuropathology. His research interests lie in childhood neurodegenerative diseases and the development of neuropathology. His current research activities focus on neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. This research is used for both clinical studies as well as for disease development studies in vitro systems (human fibroblasts from patients NCL and genetically modified, human neuroblastoma cell lines). His research focuses on the phenotypic characteristics of the so-called late - infantile NCL variants as well as the process of autophagy and mitochondrial function with selected NCL forms. Current studies were financed by the "European Union Seventh Framework Program".