Core team
Dr. Michal Parizek is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head of the Department of International Relations at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University. He conducts research and teaches courses on international politics and international organizations. He has studied at Charles University, at the University of Bath, at Princeton University, and at Freie Universität Berlin. In his research, he focuses on global information inter-connectedness and on the functioning of international institutions. The results of his research have been published in leading scholarly journals in the field of International Relations, including in International Studies Quarterly (2021), The Review of International Organizations (2017, 2021, 2024), Journal of European Public Policy (2024), and New Political Economy (2018). Michal is the principal investigator of GLOWIN.
Tereza Plíštilová is a doctoral student at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University. In her master’s thesis, she focused on the Israel Defense Forces’ Twitter campaign and their construction of narratives during the Gaza protests. In her doctoral thesis and in GLOWIN, she examines protest movements in the Middle East after the Arab Spring and their visibility in media, using mixed-methods research design. The results of her research have been published in Media, War & Conflict, and in East European Politics.
Dr. Jakub Stauber is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University. His research is focused on the political party organizations in the context of the institutionalization theory. He specializes mainly in the use of quantitative methods and simulation studies in political science. The results of his research have appeared, among others, in European Security (2024), Journal of Contemporary European Studies (2023), and East European Politics (2018, 2024). In GLOWIN, he focuses on data collection and advanced automated text analysis techniques.
Dr. Jakub Tesař is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University. In his PhD project, he connected two areas of his expertise (Physics and International Relations, both studied at the graduate level) when he examined possible applications of the quantum theory in the social sciences, namely quantum game theory. His research has appeared, among others, in Decision (2020), Human Affairs (2015), Technology in Society (2020), and Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2019). In GLOWIN, Jakub focuses particularly on the development and refinement of the information theoretical framework for assessing the information content of news.
Michal Parízek 
Tereza Plíštilová 
Jakub Stauber 
Jakub Tesař
Research affiliates and assistants
In 2021-2023, we were joined by several research affiliates and a large group of research assistants. The research affiliates included Jan Dostál (a doctoral student at the Institute of Political Studies), Anna Jordanová (a doctoral student at the Institute of International Studies), Julian Theseira (a doctoral student at the Institute of Political Studies), all three at Charles University, Dr. Barbora Fuksová (specialist in a Czech IT and data science company and is a part-time researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague), Omar Dumdum (a doctoral candidate in Mass Communication at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jan Pacovský (a machine-learning specialist and a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University), and David Chaloupka (an MA student at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University).
Also in 2021-2023, a group of research assistants has joined GLOWIN to help us with our work on the coding of news media content. They were all Master’s students at our Institute of Political Studies. They came from all corners of the World and fourteen different countries.