Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations. Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Population and Religious Studies (CASPAR) at the Cracow University of Economics.

Holds a PhD in sociology and is a graduate of sociology and religious studies. Principal investigator of the research project “Constructing Ethnic Identity among Young Kurdish Migrants in Istanbul” (funded under the National Science Centre [NCN] Preludium programme), on the basis of which he defended his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Janusz Mucha at Jagiellonian University.

Member of an interdisciplinary research team studying Kurdish culture from a postcolonial perspective – www.kurdishstudies.pl (funded under the NCN Sonata Bis programme).

Author of two scholarly monographs: “The Istanbul Reception of the Arab Spring and the Idea of the Turkish Model of Democracy” (Libron, 2014) and “Religions of the Kurds: Yazidism, Alevism, Ahl-e Haq” (Sacrum, 2015).

Has experience in teaching  methodology of social research. His research interests focus on migration and Middle Eastern studies, political and cultural anthropology, the sociology of ethnicity, and urban studies.