Harald König works as a scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT. He coordinates SYNENERGENE's Platform 4 activities focusing on research and policy.
Harald holds a PhD in biology. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH) and as a principal investigator and head of an independent research group in molecular biology and biomedicine at the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In 2011, he joined KIT’s Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) where he works as a researcher on technology assessment of biosciences and the governance of synthetic biology and emerging technologies.