Since 2016, he has been an employee of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, employed as a professor at the university. In the years 2004 – 2016, Director of the Laboratory Research Center at IChPW Zabrze. A long-time participant and manager of national and international projects in the field of energy and chemical industry. Member of the scientific councils of the Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Fundamentals of Environmental Protection Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Combustion and Thermodynamics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Research interests and main scientific activities include technologies for thermal processing of solid fuels, biomass and waste, with particular emphasis on gasification and pyrolysis processes, and CO2 capture technologies. Author of several dozen publications, 5 patents, 2 monographs, manager and participant of several dozen national and international research projects and expert teams.