Mikuláš Peksa

Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986) is a Czech biophysicist and politician for Volt Europa. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Pirate Party in the 2019 election, and sat with the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.

Early career Peksa studied biophysics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, focusing on nuclear magnetic resonance, and worked as a researcher and a software engineer.

Political career Pirate Party Peksa joined the Czech Pirate Party in 2013. In the 2017 Czech legislative election, he was elected a Member of the Chamber of Deputies.

In the 2019 European election, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament along with Marcel Kolaja and Markéta Gregorová, and stood down as a deputy of the Czech Parliament on 6 June 2019. He joined the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.

In the European Parliament, Peksa was a member of two European Parliament committees: the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee

Volt On 17 March 2025, Peksa joined Volt Czechia, the national chapter of Volt Europa, a progressive and federalist European political alliance.