Matthias Fries

Areas of professional focus at CDE

• Information systems management and IT Consulting
• Development of web-based geographic information system (GIS) applications
• Geoprocessing and process automation (ArcGIS, R-statistics, GDAL, etc.)
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis
• GIS application development and teaching (Python)
• Capacity development in geographic information systems  and information systems management
• Database management systems and metadata

Projects

• Geo-Myanmar
• Lao Decide info, Laos
• Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) Project, Ethiopia and Kenya
• Erosion Risk Monitoring System (ERMS), Switzerland
• National Desertification Monitoring System (NDMS), Mongolia
• Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme (ESAPP)

Further professional interests

• Spatial vizualizations
• Open source GIS
• Information security and risk management

Field experience

Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mongolia, Lao PDR, Myanmar

Languages

German, English, French, Spanish (basic)