Nikola Schmidt
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Nikola Schmidt is a researcher on the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. Schmidt is currently leading a multidisciplinary project to devise a strategy for planetary defense and asteroid mining policy for the Czech Ministry of Transport, with participation from astronomers, space engineers, international lawyers, and political scientists. He has edited or authored a number of recent works, including the Springer volume Planetary Defense: Global Collaboration for Defending Earth From Asteroids and Comets as well as articles in Acta Astronautica and New Space. Schmidt received his PhD from Charles University in 2016, with a dissertation on The Birth of Cyber as a National Security Agenda, and participated in a European Space Agency and NASA-funded planetary defense team project organized by the International Space University in 2015.