Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986) is a Czech biophysicist and politician for

Volt Europa Volt Europa (known mononymously as Volt) is a transnational pro-European and Federalisation of the European Union, federalist European political alliances, European political movement. It operates as a Pan-European identity, pan-European umbrell ...

. He was elected as a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

for the

Czech Pirate Party The Czech Pirate Party ( ) often known simply as the Pirates (''Piráti'' ) is a Liberalism, liberal Progressivism, progressive List of political parties in the Czech Republic, political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 2009. The party was ...

in the 2019 election, and sat with the

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Early career

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

Charles University Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world in conti ...

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 disturbed 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 branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications. It involves applying engineering principles and computer programming expertise to develop ...

Political career

Pirate Party

Peksa joined the

in 2013. In the

2017 Czech legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic on 20 and 21 October 2017. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies were elected and Andrej Babiš of ANO, also the leader of the Andrej Babiš' ...

, he was elected a Member of the

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. In the 2019 European election, he was elected as a

along with Marcel Kolaja and Markéta Gregorová, and stood down as a deputy of the Czech Parliament on 6 June 2019. He joined the

. In the European Parliament, Peksa was a member of two European Parliament committees: the

European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is a Committees of the European Parliament, committee of the European Parliament. Its areas of responsibility relate to industry, especially technology-intensive manufacturing, information techno ...

, and the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee

Volt

On 17 March 2025, Peksa joined the pan-European party Volt Czechia.

References

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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 Volt Europa politicians