His doctoral work consisted in presenting the overview of binary stars and their impact on different areas of astronomy, including the physical mechanisms that govern their evolution, i.e., from their initial configuration as binaries formed with main sequence stars to all possible outcomes. These cover systems as interesting as cataclysmic variables and explosions as important as supernovae.

This work, which is part of a large sample of binaries consisting of a white dwarf plus an intermediate-mass companion star of spectral type AFGK, offers the potential to provide new constraints on theoretical models of close binaries formation and evolution.