Positions

• 2019 to present

  Senior Researcher and Head of Centre

  Institute of International Relations Prague, Centre for Governance of Emerging Technologies

  • Develops and manages the research centre
  • Research on planetary defense, space mining, space settlement and the Artemis Accords, and emerging and disruptive technologies including AI
  • Works with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Transport on their policy knowledge needs
  • National delegate to UN COPUOS (space security and planetary defense agenda)
• 2025 to 2028

  Senior Researcher, COREmind project

  Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer Science and Institute of Psychology

• 2023 to present

  Lecturer

  Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies

• 2026 to present

  Global Expert

  Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Arts

  • Developing a space village to be situated in closed coal mines
  • Developing a curriculum in international relations, space politics and space mining

• 2012 to 2021

  Lecturer and Researcher; Principal Investigator of TACR-PD (2018 to 2021)

  Charles University, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

  • Graduate courses on space and cyber security (until 2017)
  • Led a multidisciplinary project of 15 researchers from four institutions
• 2015 to 2017

  Lecturer and Researcher

  Metropolitan University Prague, Department of Security Studies

• 2012 to 2013

  Cyber Security Analyst, International Relations

  National Security Authority of the Czech Republic, National Cyber Security Centre

  • Cooperation on the national cyber security strategy and law
  • Represented the Czech Republic at the OSCE on confidence-building measures in cyberspace
• 2011

  Food Facility and Livelihood Programme Officer

  People in Need, Afghanistan, Balkh province

• 2018 to present

  Czech delegation to the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), UN COPUOS

  Planetary defense

• 2012 to 2014

  Expert adviser to the Czech delegation to the OSCE

  Cyber confidence-building measures

• 2012 to 2016

  Ph.D., International Relations

  Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences

  Dissertation: The Birth of Cyber as a National Security Agenda

• 2010 to 2012

  Mgr., International Relations and European Studies

  Metropolitan University Prague

  Cum laude, Security Studies Certificate for exceptional results

• 2003 to 2006

  Bc., Sociology and Social Policy

  Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences

• 2015

  Space Studies Program, International Space University, Athens, Ohio: planetary defense team project READI (co-funded by NASA and ESA)

• 2015

  Visiting Researcher, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• 2013

  NATO School Oberammergau, course on the international law of cyber operations

• 2013

  Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Program, Prague Security Studies Institute

• 2012

  International security at Sciences Po, Paris (Erasmus)

• 2010 to 2012

  Freelance consultancy and project management in technology companies

• 2007 to 2010

  Digital Urban Legends Ltd., project manager, GPS-related software development

• 2002 to 2009

  COEX CZ Ltd., co-founder and executive director of a software company of about 30 engineers

• 1995 to 2002

  Freelance graphic designer

Czech (native), English (fluent), French (passive), Spanish (passive), German (beginner)