He graduated with a degree in economics, and in 1993, he began his professional career at the Białystok Branch of the University of Warsaw, moving in 1997 to the newly established University of Białystok (UwB). At UwB, he obtained a PhD in economics in 1998, based on his doctoral thesis Technical Innovations and the Functioning of the Economy (on the Example of Great Britain), supervised by Kazimierz Meredyk. At the same institution, he received his habilitation in 2004, based on his academic achievements and the dissertation The Impact of Changes in Economic Policy and Globalization on Technological Progress and Competitiveness of the UK Economy. He completed an academic internship at the University of Sussex. On January 29, 2018, he was awarded the academic title of professor. He specializes in political economy, the economics of innovation, and economic policy. At the University of Białystok, he was promoted to the position of associate professor in 2006. From 2002 to 2005, he served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, and subsequently as its Dean until 2012. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the Head of the Department of Economic Systems, and in 2015, he took charge of the Department of Political Political Economy. In 2012, he assumed the role of Vice-Rector for Financial Affairs at UwB. In 2016, he was elected Rector of the university for a four-year term, and in 2020, he was re-elected for a second term.