Mikuláš Peksa

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Mikuláš Peksa
Peksa in 2021
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic
In office 2 July 2019 – 15 July 2024
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	(1986-06-18) 18 June 1986 (age 38) 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.

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 Czech Pirate Party in 2013. In 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]

• European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
• Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee

• Media related to Mikuláš Peksa at Wikimedia Commons
• Mikuláš Peksa on Czech Pirate Party website