Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz and co-founder of the European Centre for Political Studies, where he focuses on strategic autonomy, sovereignty, and the European political order. He is the originator and co-founder of the European Union Security Initiative – a project that brings together EU governments, the European Commission, and academia in the debate on security and defense.
In 2021, he co-founded the Review of Democracy journal, published by the CEU Democracy Institute, which he subsequently directed as editor-in-chief. He is also co-founder and coordinator of the Enlargement Hub, which brings together the best European research institutions focused on preparing the European Union for enlargement.
He earned his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, where he is a senior fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He has held research fellowships at Princeton University, the University of Montreal, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Hertie School in Berlin. He has participated in ERC and Horizon projects, gaining experience working with prestigious research grants.
He has also published in Le Monde, The New York Review of Books, Esprit, Rzeczpospolita, and Gazeta Wyborcza, among others.