Robert holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Forestry Agricultural University in Kraków, but he also finished postgraduate studies in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology of Jagiellonian University. He earned a PhD in Biology at the Institute of Nature Conservation Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, and then Habilitation in Biology at the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw. He is particularly interested in animal ecology and conservation biology. He is an associate professor at the Department of Ecology Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw Academy of Sciences.