03 / Projects
Projects
Funded research projects, editorial initiatives and collaborations, current and past.
- 2025 to 2028
COREmind
Socio-cultural determinants of the impact of the circulation of representations on the human mind and possibilities for remediation
Senior researcher: stigmatization of scientific knowledge in political decision-making and disinformation campaigns
- 2024 to 2028
FOGOS COST Action
Futures-oriented Governance of Outer Space: Towards Peace, Equity, and Environmental Integrity
Participant responsible for policy, governance and political science topics
Active Space governance and law - 2025 to 2027
Governing Planetary Defense
Politics, Ethics, Law in the Global Response to an Asteroid Threat
Co-editor of three special issues with colleagues from Masaryk University and Swinburne University; authors workshop for Global Policy held in Vienna, 14 and 15 September 2026 (University of Vienna and ESPI)
Active Planetary defense
- 2023 to 2025
STRAT:FORS
Network of experts for the analysis of global strategic trends
Coordinator of the team on emerging and disruptive technologies for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 2022 to 2025
RECLAIM
Reclaiming liberal democracy in the post-factual age
Work package leader: the role of technology in disinformation operations
- 2022 to 2025
HR-JUST
States' Practice of Human Rights Justification
Work package on IR theory and the role of epistemic authority in global governance
- 2019 to 2022
SIMARGL
Secure Intelligent Methods for Advanced Recognition of Malware and Stegomalware
Work package leader: political and international legal perception of cyber threats
- 2018 to 2021
TACR-PD: Planetary Defense
A multidisciplinary analysis of planetary defense from asteroids as the key national policy ensuring further flourishing and prosperity of humankind both on Earth and in space
Principal investigator; astronomers, space engineers, international lawyers and political scientists from four institutions; two edited volumes with Springer; spin-offs include the PULS initiative and the SLAVIA spacecraft concept
- 2015
READI
Roadmap for EArth Defense Initiatives
Team member, International Space University Space Studies Program
- 2015 to 2016
Hybrid warfare
Disclosure, countermeasures and defense strategy against hybrid warfare with emphasis on information and psychological operations
Investigator
- 2013 to 2015
Cyber deterrence
The application of classical theoretical approaches of strategic deterrence to asymmetric threats of cyberspace
Investigator