
Matej Kandrík
Matej is a cofounder of Adapt Institute and a PhD candidate in Political Science with a specialisation in Security and Strategic Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. In 2016 he did a research stay at the National Defence University of Poland. He collaborated as an external analyst with Visegrad Insight and as a research fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the

Kamila Koníková
Kamila is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Comenius University in Bratislava with research on private military and security companies in connection to the security policy of the EU. Her previous experience includes working for non-governmental organization Slovak Security Policy Institute and working for a member of parliament. During her studies

Peter Dubóczi
Graduated from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia in 2019 with Master’s degree in Political Science. Currently, he is an internal doctoral student at the Department of Political Science at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, where his research focuses on the open society concept and liberal democracy in the environment of international relations.

Matúš Jevčák
PhD student in political science specializing in security and strategic studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. In his research, he focuses primarily on Turkey and the neighboring regions. In the past, he was an intern at the Institute for Security

Jana Kleščová
Graduated in International Trade and European Integration with a focus on disinformation and hybrid warfare at the University of Economics in Prague. As part of her master’s degree, she participated in the Master of International Studies

Viliam Ostatník
Viliam Ostatník, M.A., is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research interests include international relations, foreign policy and international security. More specifically,

Samuel Zilincik
Samuel Zilincik is a doctoral student of security and strategic studies at Masaryk and Leiden Universities and a lecturer at the University of Defence in the Czech Republic. His research interests include military strategy in general and its emotional aspects

Michaela Ružičková
Michaela Ružičková is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. She completed an internship at the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic at the Foreign Policy Department. She worked as a

Daša Židuliaková
Daša Židuliaková is a MA student in the Middle East and North Africa at Sciences Po Grenoble in France. Her research focuses on Iran, Shia Islam and religion in the foreign policy of the Middle Eastern countries. She conducted research on the given topics in

Alexandra Fratric
Alexandra holds MA and MSc degrees in International Business Development and
Marketing from Austria and Russia, as well as a BBA degree in Businessdministration from Finland. Currently, she is a master’s degree student of International Relations

Alžbeta Gavalcová
Alžbeta Gavalcová is a student of International Relations and Energy Security at Masaryk University in Brno and graduate of Economic Diplomacy at the University of Economics in Bratislava. She focuses on topics of energy security and green

Matúš Bučko
Matúš graduated with Bachelor’s degree in field of European Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. In 2021-2022 he collaborated with Infosecurity.sk. Since 2021 he writes short texts for STRATPOL – Strategic Policy Institute. His research

Matej Rafael Riško

Adam Potočňák
Adam Potočňák graduated from the master’s program in security and strategic studies at the Faculty of Social Science, Masaryk University in Brno and is currently a doctoral student of political science specializing in international security at the same faculty/University. He has worked as a research fellow at the Centre for Security and

Myroslava Makhynia
Myroslava is currently a student of political science at Comenius University in Bratislava. Her previous work experience includes working in the marketing department of an HR company. During her studies, she also completed several internships, namely in the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the

Weronika Grzebalska, Ph.D.
Dr. Weronika Grzebalska is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Weronika’s work centers on the changing nature of the military and defense in contemporary Central and Eastern

Jaroslav Cabuk
Jaroslav Cabuk is a graduate in International Relations (bachelor’s degree) and in Security Studies (master’s degree) from the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, while, under the Erasmus program, he also