Pawel received his PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and did his post-doctoral fellowships at University of Waterloo and Dalhousie University. In 2009, Pawel joined West Virginia University as a faculty member but after 2 years he decided to move back to Canada. Since 2006, he published 70 papers with 46 collaborators, including mathematicians, computer scientists, and social scientists. More information can be found on Pawel's website (http://www.math.ryerson.ca/~pralat/).