Academic and designer specialising in the green transition in the built environment. He directs the International Centre of Education at the Cracow University of Technology, where he founded the Postgraduate Programme in Sustainable Urban Management.
Currently, his professional work focuses on repairing urban structures, enhancing the quality of life and the character of the local townscape and advancing building renovation efforts to address the climate and energy crises.
He has authored or edited around one hundred scientific articles and academic textbooks on the history of urbanism, placemaking methodology, urban resilience, and climate change adaptation in cities. He is actively involved in the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) – a global organisation of more than 40 national NGOs dedicated to preserving local building and architectural traditions that support balanced, community- and nature-oriented development. He serves as a Trustee/Director of INTBAU (UK) and Chair of INTBAU Poland.
He is also a member of the Committee of Climate Experts of the Polish Ombudsman and a member of the Accreditation Board of the Republic of Albania.
For many years, a member of the Sendzimir Foundation Council, an expert in the Mitigation of Climate Change in Historic Buildings project and FuturHist project, and scientific editor of the guide to the renovation and thermal modernisation of historic buildings, which was published in September 2022 by the Foundation.