Studies at the Lodz University of Technology, continued at the University of Halle-Merseburg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1971. Since 1971, assistant professor at the Szczecin University of Technology in the Department of Plastics and Protective Coatings. Scientific internships: DAAD and Humboldt Foundation scholarship, TH Darmstadt, CRNS, Mulhouse in France. After defending his habilitation thesis in 1987 at the Szczecin University of Technology, participation in a competition: appointed in 1988 in the Federal Republic of Germany as a professor in the field of technical sciences at the University of Kassel and still an employee of the Szczecin University of Technology; in 1993, the academic title of professor awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland. After winning another competition, in 1994, appointment to the position of head of the first Department of Plastics Engineering and Recycling in Germany, established on the initiative of an industrial foundation, with the participation of thirty companies. For many years Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kassel, at the same time member of various university bodies. Scientific research within various European projects and German foundations and in direct cooperation with companies. Long-term member of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institutes network. Still intensive cooperation with the Szczecin University of Technology (11 projects). Since 2010 intensive cooperation with companies and various Polish institutes within the West Pomeranian University of Technology.