Professor at the Department of International Relations on the Krakow University of Economics. A graduate of the Catholic University of Leuven (PhD in Social Sciences), the University of Exeter (MA in European Studies), and the Jagiellonian University (MA in Sociology). He is a former scholar at the University of Oxford and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bradford. He is a researcher at the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and the Centre for Advanced Population and Religious Studies at the University of Economics (CASPAR UEK). He is the author of numerous articles on religion and ethnicity in migration processes, Islam and Muslims in Europe, and the politicization of Islam in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, which have appeared in publications such as Patterns of Prejudice, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Compass, and Gender, Place, and Culture. He is the author of the monographs “From Immigrant Islam to Citizen Islam” (Nomos 2005, 2007) and “The New Muslim Elites in European Cities” (VDM Verlag 2010), as well as “Transformations of Islamisms in Egypt and Tunisia in the Shadow of the Arab Spring” (Nomos 2019). He is also the co-author of “Polish Migration Policy” (UW 2015) and editor of “On the West Bank Without Change” (KiP 2016) and “Muslim Minorities in Europe and India” (New Century 2016).

Initiator and co-coordinator of the Observatory of Multiculturalism and Migration – a joint initiative of the Krakow City Hall and the Krakow University of Economics.