Researcher Profile

Dr. Joachim Klerx

Function

Scientist

Center

Innovation Systems & Policy

Competence Unit

Innovation Systems & Policy

E-Mail

Joachim.Klerx(at)ait.ac.at

Phone

+43 50550 4546

Address

Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna

Career

Research

Field: Institutional Change and Policy Instruments

Main Research: Foresight and Horizon Scanning

Experience:

Dr. Joachim Klerx works in the field of political information systems and horizon scanning for more than 15 years at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). His main focus of research is currently in the management of innovative networks in foresight and horizon scanning centers. He uses methods from the field of data mining (e.g. topic mining and emotion mining) and artificial intelligence, to develop intelligent software agents for information management. In a variety of national and international research projects, he has developed, among other things, a policy information system to manage the innovation system of the Vienna Region, intelligent "screening agents" to search for weak signals on the Internet and information retrieval agents to identify new threats to society on the Internet. In projects such as CONCERTO PLUS and the European foresight platform (EFP), Joachim Klerx directed the establishment and operation of major platforms for knowledge management in these networks.

Currently he is involved in the following research activities:
• Organizing a knowledge exchange network for security research (Inno4Sec)
• Setting up a horizon scanning center for cyber security with the Austrian Armed Forces
• Doing research on de-anonymizing transactions with virtual currencies, with dark net mining and social network analysis (BITCRIME)
• Setting up a test bed for future innovation in crisis and disaster management in Europe (DRIVER)
• And developing big data methods for automatic horizon scanning

Professional Experience

1998-1999: Researcher
Institute for Industrial Research / Austria
1999-2003: Indepandent Researcher
Austrian Research Institut / Austria
2003-: Scientist
Austrian Institute of Technology / Austria
2013-: Visiting Researcher
National Defence Academy / Austria

Awards

1999: ARC Ph.D. fellowship

Publications

Selected Journals

Future-oriented activities as a concept for improved disaster risk management
Author(s): Aubrecht Christoph1, Özceylan Aubrecht Dilek, Klerx Joachim, Freire Sérgio
Journal: Disaster Advances (2013)
Knowledge Development and Horizon Scanning for Strategic Longterm Planning in Cyber Security
Author(s): Göllner, J., Klerx, J., Mak, K
Journal: Security and Defence Quarterly, Journal, Central European Forum on Military Education CEFME (2015)

Books

all;
Knowledge Management in the Austrian Armed Service, Foresight in strategic long term planning
Author(s): Johannes Göllner, Joachim Klerx, Klaus Mak
Publisher: Publication of the National Defence Academy; 2015
Series: ; No. 5/2015
Horizon Scanning for emerging risks in supply chain systems;
Book of Abstracts EMCSR 2014
Author(s): Klerx, J., Göllner, J, Mak, Klaus
Publisher: ; 2014; ISSN: 2227-7803
Series: ; European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research

Conferences

Social Media Information Analysis for Crisis and Disaster Management,
Author(s): Hermann Huber, Georg Neubauer, Andrea Nowak, Joachim Klerx, Bettina Jager, Klaus Mak, Christian Meurers
Cloud Computing - Tracking this Emerging Phenomenon
Author(s): Hörlesberger, M., Klerx, J
Conference . Technology and the Global Challenges: Security, Energy, Water, and the Environment - Conference Proceedings, Florida

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