Konrad teaches Data Science to every computer science student at HHU Düsseldorf, and used to do research in algebraic topology.

Konrad Völkel is an Academic Teacher in the Dialog Systems and Machine Learning group at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Many computer science students meet him in the mandatory Data Science course or in Intro to Python, Data Science 2 or Intro to Deep Learning.

He supervises bachelor's and master's theses on a variety of topics — one of them became hAInrich, a tiny chatbot that answers questions about HHU's AI & Data Science master without hallucinating.

Before that he was a mathematician: his PhD in Freiburg was about motivic cell structures in A¹-homotopy theory, with detours through Münster, Karlsruhe, Paris and Osnabrück.