Reinhard Koenig is professor for Computational Architecture at Bauhaus-University Weimar and a principal scientist at the Smart and Resilient Cities competence unit at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna. In addition, he acts as Co-PI in the Big Data Informed Urban Design group at the Future Cities Lab at the Singapore ETH Centre.

After studying architecture and urban planning in Munich and Kaiserslautern Reinhard completed his PhD thesis in 2009 at the University of Karlsruhe. From 2007 to 2012 he has worked as a research assistant and appointed interim professor of the Chair for Computer Science in Architecture at Bauhaus-University Weimar. From 2013 to 2016 Reinhard worked as senior researcher at the Chair of Information Architecture, ETH Zurich. In 2014 he was guest professor at the Technical University Munich.