Luis is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in evolutionary, paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic aspects of ichnology. He has carried out field and subsurface work in many different countries. He was President of the International Ichnological Association and Vice-President of the International Palaeontological Association. He is a member of the editorial board of a number of journals, including Scientific Reports, Lethaia, Sedimentary Geology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Ichnos, Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina, Iberian Journal of Geology, and Spanish Journal of Paleontology. Luis is a Voting Member of the International Subcommission on Ediacaran Stratigraphy (IGCP). He has published five books, edited six special publications, and is the author of over 200 scientific papers. He has supervised over twenty graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Research Area(s)
Ichnology (the study of animal-substrate interactions) and its relationship with Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Paleoecology and Paleobiology
Rocks formed in a wide variety of depositional environments (continental, and marginal-, shallow- and deep-marine) and ages (Ediacaran to Neogene)