Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986 in Prague) is a Czech biophysicist, activist and

Czech Pirate Party The Czech Pirate Party or Pirates ( cs, Česká pirátská strana , abbreviated ''Piráti'' ) is a Liberalism, liberal Progressivism, progressive List of political parties in the Czech Republic, political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 20 ...

politician. He was elected as a

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in the 2019 election, and sits as a member of the

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Early career and the Czech Pirate Party

Peksa studied

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...

at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the

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in Prague, focusing on

nuclear magnetic resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a ...

, and worked as a researcher and a

software engineer Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term ''p ...

. Peksa joined the

in 2013. In the

2017 Czech legislative election Legislative elections were held in the Czech Republic on 20 and 21 October 2017. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected and Andrej Babiš of ANO 2011, also the leader of the resultant government, became the Prime Minister. The ...

, he was elected a Member of the

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European Parliament

Election

In the 2019 European election, he was elected as a

along with

Marcel Kolaja Marcel Kolaja (born 29 June 1980 in Moravská Třebová) is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 ele ...

and Markéta Gregorová. Upon joining the European Parliament, he left his position of Deputy of the Czech Parliament on 6 June 2019. He joined the

Committee assignments

Peksa is a member of the following European Parliament committees: * European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy *Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee

References

External links

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Mikuláš Peksa
on Czech Pirate Party website {{DEFAULTSORT:Peksa, Mikulas Czech Pirate Party MEPs Living people MEPs for the Czech Republic 2019–2024 Czech Pirate Party MPs 1986 births Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2017–2021) Politicians from Prague Czech software engineers Biophysicists Charles University alumni Scientists from Prague