He holds two master’s degrees gained in this University – in ethnology and cultural anthropology, and philosophy. He has undertaken long-term ethnographic fieldwork research in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. He received studentships at the Kyrgyz National University in Bishkek (2005) and the University of Vienna (2005-2006). He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (2011-2012) and at the Central European University in Budapest (2013). In 2017-18, within a scholarship of the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, he will be a Visiting Professor in the Wagner College (New York). He is the author of over a 20 scholarly articles published in Polish, Russian and English. His areas of interest include postsocialist studies, the political economy of capitalism, globalization, as well as economic and philosophical anthropology.