Stehlíková began her research appointment at Anglo-American University in 2026. Her academic experience includes roles at the University of Westminster, the Royal College of Art, and the University of Creative Communication in Prague. She also teaches artistic research at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and UMPRUM.

Her cross-disciplinary research connects artistic practice, sensory studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, and art-science dialogue. Her monograph Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses was published by Routledge in 2025. She is founder and editor of Tangible Territory and co-founder of “Ecstatic Truth,” an international symposium series on expanded animation and documentary practice.

Her films, installations and participatory performances have been presented internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, Prague Quadrennial, Somerset House, Stadtkino Vienna, the British Film Institute London Film Festival, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the Under_the_RADAR festival in Vienna.

She has developed and co-developed several diagnostic and intervention tools widely used in Czech educational and counselling practice and has contributed to many national and international research projects, including the Multilingual Assessment Battery of Early Literacy (MABEL) (). She is a member of the International Society for Scientific Studies of Reading and a founding member of the European Literacy Network. Alongside her research, she has extensive experience in lifelong learning programs for professionals in psychology, counselling, and speech therapy, and is dedicated to mentoring students and early career researchers.

Basak’s experience includes designing all the brand’s print materials and digital visuals, including newsletters, social media, website banners, UI designs, and presentation designs across multiple platforms.

After serving as a postdoctoral research scientist (1994-1997) at SUNY-Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, Chris held faculty positions at Mount Holyoke College (1997-1998), Troy University (1998-2005), and Kennesaw State University (2005-2025). Chris has also served in a variety of administrative roles during his career, including Psychology Department Chair and Interim Dean of the College of Education at Troy University, Associate Director for Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Kennesaw State University, and Assistant Chair and Interim Department Chair of the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University.

Chris’s current scholarly focus and research interests include comparative & evolutionary psychology, learning and behavior, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Knihová is an Assistant Professor at AAU and also teaches at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Czech Technical University in Prague. At AAU, she teaches Digital Skills & AI for Business, Marketing Communications, Buyer Behavior, and Marketing Research, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between marketing, technology, and contemporary educational practice.

Knihová’s professional experience also includes several years at Harley-Davidson Prague, where she worked closely with the marketing and communication department, focused on content marketing, and led staff training initiatives. In addition to her academic work, she has many years of experience in diplomacy and in business practice, particularly in the SME sector in engineering and trade.

Her research and professional interests focus primarily on digital marketing, AI applications in marketing and education, immersive marketing, marketing communication, and the integration of technology into teaching and learning. Knihová has authored more than 70 scholarly and professional publications, edited two professional books, and she regularly participates in international academic conferences. Among her recent major projects are the book AI Marketing Playbook: Jak ChatGPT a umělá inteligence mění svět marketingu (AI Marketing Playbook: How ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence Are Changing the World of Marketing) and the Czech translation of Philip Kotler’s Marketing 6.0. Her current work explores the role of artificial intelligence in marketing practice, higher education, and the development of innovative teaching methods.

Dr. Joch is Chairman and Executive Director of the Civic Institute, a Prague-based think tank. He was International Secretary of ODA, a political party (1994–98), and an Assistant to a Senator (2001–04) in the Czech Republic. He served as an Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (Human Rights and Foreign Policy, 2010–12), Adviser to the Lord Mayor of Prague (2012–14), and Adviser to the Member of the European Parliament (2017).

In addition to being Chairman and Director of the Civic Institute, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Economics and at CEVRO University, both in Prague. He is the author of several books and essays on political philosophy and public policy, a contributor to Czech and Slovak media, and a regular columnist for the Czech daily Lidovky.cz and Slovak daily Postoj.sk, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Aspen Review Central Europe. Among his books are The Revolt Against the Revolution of the 20th Century, No, Mr. Prime Minister!, and On the Side of Freedom.

Svobodová started her career in the Parliamentary Institute, Parliament of the Czech Republic. She served as a legal advisor in the area of approximation of laws during the process of accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. Later, she worked in law firms and focused on civil law and commercial law. She passed the bar examination in 2012; she is an attorney-at-law registered with the Czech Bar Association under number 14205. In 2012, she started her academic career at Metropolitan University Prague. Since 2015, she has been a lecturer at Charles University, Faculty of Law, Department of European Law. She became a lecturer and a guarantor at AAU in 2026. Svobodová is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law, Charles University. She specializes in EU law, in particular in Union citizenship, free movement of persons and fundamental rights protection in the EU. She is a member of Czech Association of European Studies. 

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He brings international experience in media production, having produced and edited social justice documentaries in Kenya and Brazil, as well as university and digital media projects. His work also includes contributions to productions in the United States in collaboration with PBS FRONTLINE and Alkemy X, supporting award-winning content.

After graduating, Joe was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to the Czech Republic, where he taught in Zlín at a secondary film school. After a year immersed in the Czech creative and academic environment, he relocated to Prague to continue his work in media.

At Anglo-American University, Joe develops and produces content that supports the university’s marketing and communications efforts, with a focus on impactful storytelling and audience engagement.

Since 2007, Říhová has been a member of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and she lectured at a variety of both public and private universities. She also served as a director of PSCC. In 2014, she became Head of Czech at Oxford University, and she was a visiting professor at Columbia University (2018–19). She has completed several internships abroad (SUNY, University of Glasgow, University College London, Humboldt Univerzität zu Berlin); she is regularly invited to give public or university lectures (Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Vienna, Oxford University, Bohemian National Hall, New York).

At AAU, Říhová teaches classes on modernism (Modernist Metropolis) and creative writing – writing fiction is her passion. When she isn’t writing, she lifts kettlebells, runs, and picks mushrooms with her two daughters.

Specializations: avant-garde and modernism, creative writing and storytelling

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Herrer also worked as a Spanish lecturer in higher education from 2022 to 2024 at Anglo-American University and at University of New York in Prague (UNYP). During this period, she completed a Master’s degree in Spanish Language Teacher Education at Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. In the 2024–2025 academic year, she served as a Spanish lecturer at the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam, as part of the MAEC-AECID Lectorship Programme. Since returning to Prague in 2026, she remains actively involved in teacher training and professional conferences, with academic interests in pragmatics, cognitive grammar, and gamification.