Gunter is co-founder and director of Riscognition a company specializing in data-driven information and decision-support solutions for better business intelligence. His long-term vision is to evolve Riscognition’s Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) model into Answers-as-a-Service, powered by AI-driven analytics. Riscognition is delivering active fire and burned area information as an automated 24/7 service within the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). Moreover, the team is coordinating the Horizon Europe project FUTUREFOR which aims to develop innovative forest monitoring solutions and related business cases.
Before founding Riscognition in 2018, Gunter worked as project manager for Copernicus at the European Environment Agency (EEA), as a researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), and in the private sector.