Education
Motyka was awarded the postgraduate academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1998.
Motyka was awarded the postgraduate academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1998.
Since 1992 he served at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of National Remembrance. Motyka is a research scientist of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Until 2007 he worked at the Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrance.
The title of his dissertation was Walki polsko-ukraińskie na ziemiach dzisiejszej Polski w latach 1943–1948 (the Polish-Ukrainian war on the territory of present day Poland in 1943-1948).
Motyka was habilitated soon thereafter. He worked as adjunct at the Faculty of Ukrainian Studies in the Jagiellonian University, but also as Associate professor of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities.
In 2011 he was selected by the Senate of Poland – the upper house of the Polish parliament – to the Board of Directors of National Polytechnic Institute.