Graduated from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in 1979, where he later worked as an assistant and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Methods of Physics and in the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Since 1989 he has been an employee of the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he served as Director from 2003 to 2006. He is a co-founder of the National Centre for Quantum Informatics in Gdansk and long-time Chairman of its Scientific Council. He was also Director of the International Centre for Formal Ontology at the Warsaw University of Technology from 2017 to 2021. He works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and computer science, chaos theory and philosophy of natural sciences. In his spare time, he reads.