Matúš Mišík is Associate Fellow at the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Comenius University in Bratislava. His main research interests include decarbonisation and energy security in the EU and the role of perception within EU decision-making mechanisms. He is the author of External Energy Security in the European Union (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of From Economic to Energy Transition. Three Decades of Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave, 2021) and Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions (Springer, 2021). He has published articles in energy policy journals including Nature Energy, Energy, Energy Policy, Geopolitics, Czechoslovak Psychology, Journal of Popular Culture, Comparative European Politics, Asia Europe Journal and Slovak Sociological Review.