Pasdzierny is a Berlin-based musicologist affiliated with the Berlin University of the Arts and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His academic focus includes the critical edition of tape music after 1945, the history of techno and electronic dance music, and the intersections of music with migration and exile.

Pasdzierny began his career as a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2007 and earned his Ph.D. in 2013 with a dissertation on post-World War II music in West Germany. From 2009 to 2014, he contributed to a DFG research project on postwar musical life. Since 2016, he has led the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Complete Edition, and in 2024, he became a junior academy professor on a tenure track at the Berlin University of the Arts.