Nikola founded and led two software development companies before coming back to academia and worked on a NGO-driven food facility project in Afghanistan.

His recent articles were published in Acta Astronautica and New Space. Nikola received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and studied international security at Sciences Po in Paris. It is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. A pivotal moment for Nikola was his participation in the ESA and NASA-funded planetary defense team project at the Space Studies Program, organized by the International Space University in Athens, Ohio, US in 2015. Space Engineers is an open world sandbox game defined by creativity and exploration. His passion in space issues can be dated long before his master studies of international relations at Metropolitan University. Nikola has been extensively teaching courses on space and cyber security at various Czech universities.

He finished his PhD in 2016 at Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Institute of Political Studies with a dissertation on The Birth of Cyber as a National Security Agenda. The project consists of astronomers, space engineers, international lawyers and political scientists. Nikola Schmidt (born 1982 in Prague, Czech Republic) is currently a leader of Planetary Defense project with an objective to deliver a policy strategy on planetary defense and asteroid mining for the Czech Ministry of Transport.

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