He received his Ph.D. in Corrosion Science at Hokkaido University, Japan in 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he was GCOE Fellow at the Department of Engineering at Hokkaido University and then Marie Curie fellow (2009-2014) at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Then he moved as a Research Associate to the Department of Physics at the University of Reims Champagne- Ardenne in France before joining the University of Warsaw.