ALUMNI 2020

Jan is 24 years old and works as a public affairs consultant at CEC Government Relations, specializing in healthcare and ICT regulation. He is currently completing his Masters in Law and Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law of Charles University. He also obtained a Bachelor degree in Political Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Social Science of Charles University and studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Jan has experience in private, non-profit as well as the public sector and is fluent in English and German. His interests include art, literature, history and board games.

Anna works as UX designer and researcher at the Stride XL company, where she designs meaningful products or services. She helps identify and better understand customers’ needs and highlight the gaps between their needs and our current capabilities. Previously she worked at the Seznam.cz based in Prague as a user researcher. She planned and conduct user research, worked with stakeholders and product teams to understand what information about users can help guide their product designs. She studied Industrial Design at the Czech Technical University in Prague. In addition to her main job she also devotes her time to the Breathing Friend project. This is a hand-held device that breaths and help you calm down in intense situations.

Bianca grew up in Hamburg to Czech parents. Now she is based as a freelance conference interpreter working with German, English and Czech in Prague for cultural institutions, political foundations, organizations linked to Czech-German relations (Goethe-Institut, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, Ahoj! Leipzig to name a few) after having studied translation and interpreting at the University of Leipzig and Charles University Prague. When she is not interpreting or traveling, she enjoys hiking, lindy hop dancing and just started to learn to play the piano.

Martin is 30 years old and he has been working for the Czech-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce for 4 years. He studied International Trade on the University of Economics in Prague (Bachelor and Master) and Czech-German Studies on the Charles University in Prague (Bachelor). He studied 3 semesters on German universities in Munich and Regensburg via Erasmus and during that time he worked on a part-time job by the respective Chambers of Industry and Commerce. Apart from his experiences in the network of German Chambers, he has worked for almost 2 years in Germany on a civil engineering project for a Czech company as an economist. In his current position, he works as a consultant for German investors for the Czech market entry and business development.

Jan studied law at the Leibniz University in Hannover and the Charles University in Prague. He focused on comparative law, private international law and European Union law. Today he works as an attorney with admission to the bar in Germany and the Czech Republic and a sworn interpreter. He also translates for the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Czech to German language. Besides he teaches future sworn interpreters at the Faculty of Law at the Charles University in Prague. As a member of the DTJV e.V. (Deutsch-Tschechische Juristenvereiniung) advisory board he is supporting the professional exchange between lawyers from Germany and the Czech Republic.

Lennart is Project Manager in the Research & Innovation Unit of the European University Association, working on EU research policy issues including open science, scholarly publishing, research data and research infrastructures. Between 2014 and 2018, he helped develop the EUA Energy & Environment Platform. Before joining EUA, Lennart interned in the Global Knowledge Sharing and Learning unit of GIZ and at the Sino-German Cultural and Economic Association in Taipei. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Leiden University. Before that he studied East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum and learned Chinese at Tongji University, Shanghai.

Michal is an electric engineer from Prague, but since 2017 he lives in Nürnberg. He works in automotive industry for a manufacturer of electronic sensors, where he is responsible for the development of technological processes, programming the production machines and digitalisation projects. During his studies at the Czech Technical University he had the opportunity to conduct research visits in Austria and Singapore. He is interested in information technologies, AI and Internet of Things and keep studying these fields by online courses in his free time. He is also passionate about outdoor activities, he plays the violin in a German orchestra and he started with beekeeping recently.

Kamila Trojanová studied Law at the Charles University in Prague and completed her Ph.D. in International Economic Relations at the University of Economics, Prague. Kamila currently works at the European Commission in Brussels. Besides her continuous efforts to cut down her own environmental footprint, she is particularly concerned about the impact of climate change on the most vulnerable and finding solutions on how to align green and social.

Helena is Prague born and based journalist writing mostly for the Aktualne.cz online daily newspaper. Her articles also appear in the Czech Hospodarske noviny economic daily and German political magazine Cicero. As a foreign-desk reporter, she focuses mainly on German politics, Czech-German relations, climate and energy issues as well as European affairs. A political scientist by training and history enthusiast of K&K descent (Czech-Hungarian-Croatian-Ukrainian), Helena is interested in topics of collective memory, dealing with the past, and (non)formal history learning. She likes to divide her free time between hiking, travelling, reading and contemplating about life with friends and beer.