He was born on 9 October 1951, in Augustów, Polish People's Republic and attended the Grzegorz Piramowicz High School No.
Together with Domcke, he made important contributions to the identification and description of the mechanism responsible for photostability of living matter.
This mechanism of radiationless deactivation of electron-excited states of DNA and protein, known as the Sobolewski-Domcke scenario, furthers the understanding of why the fundamental biological structures are relatively resistant to UV radiation.
This discovery proved to be of great importance for the research into the beginnings of life on Earth because it explains in what ways the survival and development of living organisms was possible despite strong UV radiation on the Earth at that time.
[4][5] Sobolewski is an author of about 130 original publications in international journals and chapters in three monographs, some of which include: