Wirkus, Lars

Lars Wirkus is a geographer by training and joined the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in 2000 as a researcher. At present, he is a senior researcher and the head of the data and geographic information system (GIS) section, which he had been developing since 2009. His current work focuses on developing and implementing interactive relational databases and GIS-based applications as well as on remote sensing and earth observation in the context of applied conflict and security research.
Wirkus contributed interactive mapping components to BICC’s arms export country database (http://www.ruestungsexport.info) and the Global Militarization Index (GMI) (http://www.bicc.de/our-work/gmi.html). More recently, he has been responsible for the development and implementation of on interactive, web-based, modular structured information portal on war and peace for use in German's Federal Agency for Civic Education’s (bpb) online services (http://sicherheitspolitik.bpb.de).