Researcher at the China-CEE Institute, established by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Budapest. Author of weekly briefings covering CEE affairs and articles concerned with China, Russia, the emergence of a post-Western multipolar order as well as the authoritarian transformation of liberal democracies, published by leading publishing houses, universities and think tanks (De Gruyter, MGIMO University Press). Graduated from Charles University in Prague, he has expertise in Russian studies, political science and international relations, and professional experience from the Parliamentary Institute of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and the Czech Academy of Sciences.