Professor in Political Science, he is currently affiliated in CEVRO University in Prague. He focuses on civil society, democracy and the public sphere, post-communism and Europeanization. He is actively engaged in a number of NGOs, public policy groups and in municipal politics. His current research focuses on cross-border cooperation, so is his latest book Active Borders in Europe. Identity and Collective Memory in the Cross Border Space which was published in 2023 in Springer.