Email: vit.stritecky@mup.cz
Vít Střítecký is an assistant professor in international security at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. He studied security and IR programs at the Charles University, Uppsala University, Sweden and University of St. Andrews, Scotland. In his research as well as academic management activities he gradually focuses on the interplay between security and technology which has resulted in two interdisciplinary security programs and large project proposal connecting security experts across the social science, natural science, medical and technical fields. On top of his academic activities he holds a position of the member of the Executive Committee responsible for R&D&I of the Technological Platform Energy Security, which is a leading regional public-private-partnership project in the area of critical infrastructure protection. He has written several expert reports focusing on security and defence policy and defence industrial policy (MFA, European Parliament, Defence and Security Industry Association of the Czech Republic) and his academic publications include numerous articles (Communist and Post-Communist Studies, European Security, Osteuropa) and book chapters as well as four research monographs. He currently works on a book looking at the role of defence industry in shaping the EU security and defence policies and together with Petr Špelda further develops computer assisted analyses of large data sets, mainly in the areas of propaganda or conspiracies.