Director at the University of Szczecin's Institute of History and International Relations, and Head of the Institute for Research in Local Communities. He specialises in Social and Political History of 20th century Poland. For the last few years he has been researching socio-economic changes in Western Pomerania from 1945 to 1989, and the country's economic policy concerning western and northern territories. Author or editor of 8 books and about 70 articles.