Filip received his PhD and postgraduate diploma from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Before joining Liverpool John Moores University, he was a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, a postdoctoral researcher at European University Viadrina in Germany, an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University and Kazimierz Wielki University in Poland, and a faculty member at the Open Institute of Technology in Malta.

He was a visiting fellow at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2019 and at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge from 2020 to 2021. In 2023, he was an Internet Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin.