Before joining the Institute in 2018, Michał completed a Blue Book Traineeship at the European Defence Agency in Brussels. A PhD student at the Department of National Security of the Jagiellonian University, Michał researches European Strategic Autonomy, strategic aspects of EU policies, Common Security and Defence Policy, digital sovereignty and technology-security nexus. Principal Investigator in the research project “The role of the institutions of the European Union in the building of the European Strategic Autonomy” funded by the National Science Centre as a part of the Preludium-19 scheme. In 2020 Michał received the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (of the Tokyo Foundation). Recipient of numerous grants and scholarships, …