"this work culminated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the climax or culmination of a particular activity or process. For example, "After months of hard work, this project finally culminated in a successful launch."
This work culminated in studies (published in 1958), with O.F. Tuttle as a collaborator, on the granite system.
His best-known work concerned the analytic representation of a single-valued function; this work culminated in the Mittag-Leffler theorem, one of the basic theorems in analytic function theory.
This work culminated in a Ph.D. in ethology from the University of Cambridge, making her one of few individuals to receive a doctorate without having first earned a bachelor's degree.
This work culminated in The Organ Music of JS Bach (1980-84), a three-volume survey of remarkable thoroughness and insight that is unlikely to be surpassed in its combination of source, style and performance criticism.
This work culminated in a preliminary socio-gram.
All this work culminated in another notion, thanks to Grothendieck and his school: that of a topos.
This work culminates in the selection and distribution of materials that support the use of external RNA controls in expression assays.
This work culminates to suggest that circulating IGF-I itself may not be directly altering breast cancer risk and thus may not be a suitable target for successful treatment.
Two years after the hippocampal disconnection study, we provided the first evidence for strong position-related activity in this area (Fyhn et al, 2004), and 1 year after that, the work culminated in the discovery of grid cells as the principal functional cell type in the entorhinal spatial map (Hafting et al, 2005).
All that work culminated in one magical Tuesday for Robinson and his family as they ate dinner at the Obamas' house on election night and later exchanged congratulatory hugs onstage at Grant Park in Chicago.
This early work culminated in the German Pavilion at Expo 67.
