Michal obtained his doctorate in 2017 from the joint East and Central Europe in Transnational Perspective program of Masaryk University and the University of Leipzig. Previously he was associated with the Institute for European Policy (IEP), Berlin. He underwent research fellowships at University of Konstanz and University of Vienna, and is Assistant Professor at the Metropolitan University Prague.

He worked as a Research Fellow at EUROPEUM Institute until September 2018.