Ondřej studied at Charles University in Prague, Tilburg University, and University of Economics in Prague, where he defended a dissertation on green transition. Currently, he teaches transition and innovation policies at Czech Technical University. Apart from academia and research, he has finished two internships at UN agencies in Santo Domingo and Prishtina and in the Czech Republic worked at municipal administration and the office of the government. He has been focusing on degrowth and the regional and social dimensions of green transition.