Michaela Prucková is a 2025-2026 Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellow. She works as a legal and policy officer at the National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) of the Czech Republic where is covers the cybersecurity agenda of the EU and NATO. In her line of work, Michaela primarily focuses on cyber crisis management, cyberdefence policy, EU law and public international law related to cybersecurity, and cybercrime.
Before joining NÚKIB, Michaela completed internships in NATO HQ, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence or Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She competed and later mentored the Czech team in the international Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, wrote popular science articles on cybersecurity topics or contributed to the Cyber Law Toolkit project. Being originally a journalism student, she also worked in the Czech Radio during her university studies.
Michaela gained a master’s degree in the Security and Strategic Studies and a master’s degree in Law, both at the Masaryk University, where she occasionally lectures on cybersecurity policy.
