Mikuláš Peksa

Mikuláš Peksa
Mikuláš Peksa
	Peksa in 2021
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2 July 2019
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
	In office; 21 October 2017 – 6 June 2019
Succeeded by	František Navrkal
Fourth vice-chairman of the; Czech Pirate Party
	In office; 24 April 2017 – 5 November 2019
Chairman of the European Pirate Party
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 11 November 2019
Preceded by	Markéta Gregorová
Personal details
Born	18 June 1986 (age 37); Prague, Czech Republic; (then Czechoslovakia)
Political party	Czech Republic:; Czech Pirate Party; EU Party:; European Pirate Party; EU Parliament group:; Greens/EFA
Alma mater	Charles University

Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986 in Prague) is a Czech biophysicist, activist and Czech Pirate Party politician. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election, and sits as a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.

Early career and the Czech Pirate Party

Peksa studied biophysics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, focusing on nuclear magnetic resonance, and worked as a researcher and a software engineer.^[1]

Peksa joined the

2017 Czech legislative election, he was elected a Member of the Chamber of Deputies.^[2]

In the 2019 European election, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament along with Marcel Kolaja and Markéta Gregorová.^[3] Upon joining the European Parliament, he left his position of Deputy of the Czech Parliament on 6 June 2019.^[4] He joined the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.

Peksa is a member of the following European Parliament committees:^[5]