Nicolas Robin began his career by focusing on shoreline dynamics, the behavior of intertidal/nearshore bars and coastal barriers. Over the past ten years, he has focused his research on coastal dune environments through several main research axes: (1) describe the sedimentary archive preserved within dunes to reconstruct past morphological evolution and changes in forcing processes; (2) improving the understanding of contemporary dune evolution and their interactions with adjacent beaches; and (3) quantifying the role of aeolian processes (wind dynamics and sediment transport) in dune behavior, in relation to both biotic and abiotic parameters.