Joachim Klerx

Dr. Joachim Klerx is a researcher at the AIT Innovation Systems Center and visiting researcher at the National Defense Academy. As a trained philosopher and economist, his research focus is on the development of new AI methods for foresight and horizon scanning as well as software development for horizon scanning centers. His successes in recent years include the development of ISA (Intelligent Screening Agent), an agent that searches the Internet for weak signals of emerging problems (SESTI). In ETTIS he worked on a system for threat detection and political agenda setting. At EFP he was responsible for the development of a global knowledge exchange platform for the worldwide foresight community. As a visiting researcher at the National Defense Academy, he developed both the operational concept and the software for the CDRC (Cyber Documentation and Research Center), which has been in operational operation since 2018. In addition, he and his team have developed crawlers for identifying hidden networks of organized crime (ANITA) and terrorism (DANTE) and money laundering (TRACE). In TRACE he is responsible for technical coordination.