Professor at the University of Lower Silesia, Wrocław

Psychologist and educator, creator of the moderation theory of development (2004) and personal advantage in old age (2007). His main fields of scientific interest are: social gerontology, especially special geragogy and gerontological lexicography, and personality psychology, especially the psychological problems of worldview, the psychology of religion and thanatopsychology. Professor at the University of Lower Silesia DSW in Wroclaw. Member of Scientific Boards of journals: “Educational Transactional Analysis”, “Social Contexts”, “Labor et Educatio”, “Disability and Rehabilitation”, “Paideia”, “Social Pedagogy”, “Senior Policy” and “Psychogeriatrics Poland”, as well as the series “Czech-Polish-Slovak Studies in Andragogy and Social Gerontology” and “Exlibris Library of Social Gerontology”. He is a member of the Expert Council of the Institute of Senior Policy in Warsaw, and on the recommendation of LAB 60+ he was a member of the Wrocław Council of Seniors (2019-2023).

He has been awarded, among others, the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Merito de Wratislavia Medal – Meritorious for Wroclaw (2023). He is a five-time winner of individual awards from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and the distinction of the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy for innovative activities in the field of dissemination of knowledge on the aging of Polish society, he also received the honorary title of “Friend of Seniors” (2016). For his long-standing lexicographic activities in the field of gerontology and for his scientific editing of the Encyclopedia of Old Age, Aging and Disability, he received a silver medal and an honorable mention at the International Senior Fair in Kielce (2019).

Major compact works: Man in the face of old age. Sketches from social gerontology. Warsaw: “InterArt”, 1995, new edition Katowice: Wyd. Nauk. “Silesia”, 1999, Dictionary of social gerontology. Warsaw: Wyd. Akad. “Żak”, 2001; Lexicon of gerontology. Kraków: Ofic. Wyd. “Impuls”, 2007, 4th ed. 2019; Crossing the “streak of cienia”. Sketches from gerontology and thanatology. Katowice: Wyd. Nauk. “Silesia”, 2009 2nd ed. 2013; Between faith and doubt. Introduction to the psychology of religion. Kraków: Ofic. Wyd. “Impuls”, 2012, and (in print) Between awakening and falling asleep. Sketches from gerontology and thanatology Katowice: Wyd. Nauk. “Silesia,” 2023.