My research focuses on Quaternary mammals. More specifically, I study the evolution of tooth morphology and histology of various groups (such as proboscideans) and the environmental inferences that can be derived from the latter (e.g., by means of tooth wear and stable isotope analysis). Such research will lead us to a better understanding of the Quaternary climate changes that resulted in the present conditions. When comparing different tooth morphologies (in particular outlines and occlusal characteristics), I focus on the developement of protocols (in the R programming environment) to facilitate the construction of large databases through process automation, as well as on the objective and reproducible interpretation of shape differences (through landmark and elliptical Fourier analysis). Recently, I have started working on training machine learning algorithms to perform the above tasks.