Andrea Braun Střelcová

Andrea Braun Střelcová is a predoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Research Group China in the Global System of Science and a doctoral researcher at the Higher Education Group, Tampere University (Finland). Andrea studies the dynamics of global research cooperation with Chinese actors from the European perspective through three lenses: research policy, universities’ organizational practice, and academic mobility. More widely, her research interests include research and innovation policy, science diplomacy, EU-China relations, and the intersection of migration with science policy. Andrea is the recipient of “Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award” at the Triple Helix Conference 2022. Andrea’s work extends beyond academia as she is an experienced project manager with expertise in higher education management and international research collaboration. She regularly holds talks also to non-academic audiences and is in active dialogue with policy makers across Europe.

Before joining the MPIWG, Andrea worked as a university administrator at Charles University’s Faculty of Physical Education and Sport (Czech Republic, 2018-2020) and a research associate at the ESSCA School of Management’s EU-Asia Institute (France, 2017-2019). Prior to that, she was based in Beijing, at first at the EU Delegation to China and Mongolia (2011), later heading the China office of EURAXESS, the European Commission’s initiative supporting researchers’ mobility (2013-2016). Andrea studied Chinese at the National Chengchi University in Taipei and Beijing Normal University. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the anthropology of China and a BA from Charles University in Prague in international relations and area studies.