Roman Laskowski was born on 16 February 1936 in Komarno, Ukraine. In 1940, his family was taken to Kazakhstan, and they returned to Poland in 1946. He studied at the high school in Kietrz and later graduated in slavistics from the Jagiellonian University in 1959.
Laskowski has worked at the Jagiellonian University since 1960 and became an academic professor there in 1981. He received the title of full professor in 2001. From 1973 to 1985, he lectured at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
In 1985, he emigrated to Sweden and settled in Gothenburg, where he lectured at the University of Gothenburg. He returned to Poland in 2001 and continued his career as a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (2001-2007) and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (2008-2012).
Laskowski was a Polish slavist and one of the most well-known Slavic scholars from Poland, specialising in Polish, Czech, and Linguistic studies. He was also a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
In 1995, Laskowski was decorated with the Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta for his contributions to the dissemination of Polish culture in Sweden.
Laskowski passed away on 21 June 2014 and was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery.
Laskowski's scientific contributions include research on the amide bond (peptide bond), kappa virtual dihedral angle, dihedral angle (torsion angle), and protein sequencing. He has also worked on predicting the 3D protein structure and function in Rhodococcus sp. NAM81 using a bioinformatics approach.
A list of Laskowski's publications could not be comprehensively found. However, one of his cited works includes: