I am a researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. My research interests include China, political repression, and digital authoritarianism. My work spans academic research, policy work, public and media outreach, and teaching.
From September to December 2025, I was a visiting fellow in Taipei with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, where I collected data on Chinese narratives about its domestic repressive policies (particularly Xinjiang) among the Taiwanese public, and I am currently processing the data and preparing outputs.
I earned a PhD in 2022 at the Prague University of Economics and Business, focusing on digital authoritarianism, and a master’s degree in Political Science with a minor in China Studies from the same university. I studied Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University and Zhejiang University, and Russian at the Far East Federal University in Vladivostok.
I taught courses on China’s global influence and on the social impacts of modern media at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and political science courses at the Prague University of Economics and Business. I was a visiting researcher at the Stockholm Center for Global Asia (Stockholm University), the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (Taipei), and the Centre for Military Studies (University of Copenhagen).