Paweł is a cognitive anthropologist. He conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivian Amazonia among the Moré people (Chapacuran language family). Based on this research, he defended his PhD at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Originally trained as an ethnologist, he later developed an interest in cognitive anthropology and the cognitive science of religion. Alongside his ethnological research in Amazonia, he is interested in how ethnography, combined with cognitive and evolutionary theoretical frameworks, can enrich our understanding of cultures and societies.