Dr Tereza Novotná is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute as part of Global Europe, Affiliate Senior Researcher at the Center for European Integration at Free University Berlin and a Korea Associate at 9DashLine. At FU Berlin, she led two research projects on the EU and South Korea approaches to the Covid19 pandemic (Korea Foundation; “KOR-ON-EU”) and on the EU’s foreign policy towards North Korea (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action “EUSKOR”). She also collaborates with the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles where she held two post-doc positions from 2012 to 2017. In 2017-2018, Tereza was a Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at the EU Center at Seoul National University and a Fudan Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai and in 2024, she was a visiting professor at LUISS University Rome.

Tereza received her Ph.D. in Politics and European Studies from Boston University and other degrees from Charles University Prague. Tereza is the author of the monograph How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a co-editor of a special issue for Asia Europe Journal on EU-Korea relations. She has widely published on EU foreign policy in, among others, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Common Market Studies, Studia Diplomatica, German Politics and Society, West European Politics, and Journal for Contemporary European Research as well as numerous policy and media outlets, including and on the EU-North East Asia/Indo-Pacific relations in 38th North, The Diplomat, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 9DashLine, Asia Trends, NK Pro, Bulletin of the East West Center Washington and others. Tereza has been a frequent commentator in English, Czech and German for media outlets such as Indus News, ZDF, Die Welt and Czech TVs, NK News, several German and Swiss radio stations and Radio Free Asia. She has also practical experience from working for the European Commission, DG RELEX/EEAS, the EU Delegation in Washington, DC and the Czech Permanent Representation to the EU.