 He is one of the founders and the Associate Director of Research of the UK Digital Curation Centre, which is located in Edinburgh.Buneman is known for his research in database systems and database theory, in particular for establishing connections between databases and programming language theory, such as introducing monad-based query languages for nested relations and complex object databases.He also pioneered research on managing semi-structured data, and, recently, research on data provenance, annotations, and digital curation.