Tereza Novotná is Senior Associate Research Fellow at the EUROPEUM and a Korea Foundation Fellow at the EU Center, Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University in South Korea where she works on her research project about the role of the EU in the North Korean crisis. She is also an academic collaborator with the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles. Tereza received her Ph.D. in Politics and European Studies from Boston University in 2012 and other degrees from Charles University Prague. She has held various visiting fellowships at SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington DC, Harvard’s Center for European Studies, University of Birmingham, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Brussels, DGAP Berlin (supported by a DAAD grant), IWM in Vienna and the Max-Planck in Cologne. Tereza is the author of the monograph How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a co-editor of The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations: TTIP in a Globalized World (Ashgate, 2015). Her other research has been published in, among others, Journal of Common Market Studies, Studia Diplomatica, German Politics and Society, West European Politics, Perspectives, and Journal for Contemporary European Research as well as numerous policy and media outlets, including Washington Post, EurActiv, The Conversation, ISPI Milan, LSE EUROPP blog and IDEAS, Lidové noviny and others. She has also practical experience from working for the European Commission, DG RELEX/EEAS, the EU Delegation in Washington, DC and the Czech Permanent Representation to the EU.
Tereza has participated in numerous academic and policy conferences, including APSA, IPSA, UACES, EUIA and universities and think tanks across the globe (Harvard, JHU, Korea, KNDU, SNU universities in Seoul, Europe - Belgium, UK, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Holland, etc.), has been a commentator at media debates, podcasts and magazine and newspaper articles on Czech TV, Czech and Slovak media, Politico, EU Observer and EurActiv, Washington Post, The Conversation, NK News on topics ranging from security on the Korean peninsula through EU foreign policy and EU affairs up to the Czech (and Central European/V4) domestic politics. Tereza is fluent in Czech, English, German.