Jan Lukačevič

Ing. Jan Lukačevič is an aerospace engineer who is working at the Prague Innovation Institute as a developer for the area of space activities until 2021. He is also a NATO2030 Young Leader as a member of the Advisory Board of Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General. This is a group of fourteen young leaders who make recommendations to the North Atlantic Alliance on the direction which NATO should take.

Among other things, he founded the Marsonaut laboratory in 2018, a project to grow plants in Mars-like conditions. For his earlier research under the European Space Agency, he was selected by Google and the Financial Times for the New Europe 100 – a list of 100 people from Central and Eastern Europe with the greatest influence on our future.

He also organises the “Energy for Doctors” initiative, which delivers energy packages to medical facilities, he leads a working group focused on Emerging & Disruptive Technologies, and was also active at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Along with these activities, he is a sought-after science populariser on social networks and in the media.