2002

Research fellow in the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (agricultural and rural policy group). 1996-1997 visiting researcher at the Centre for the Study of Democracy in the Institute of Westminster, London. Main fields of interest: recent economic and social transition in Hungary, changes of labour market, small-scale agriculture and the coping strategies of former industrial commuters in disadvantaged rural areas.   

Professor in sociology and anthropology at the Jagiellonian University. Founder and head of the Institute for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and one of the main authors of the European Studies curriculum in Poland. He has broad international teaching experience from Europe and America.

Head of the Service of the City Council of Kraków.