Dr Konadl began his Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics at the University of Regensburg in the 2014/2015 winter semester, specialising in “Banking Informatics” and “IT Security”. He completed the consecutive Master’s programme, specialising in “Business Information Systems”, in the summer term of 2019.
During his studies, Dr Konadl gained a wide range of project and practical experience through various roles, both in the private sector and as part of his employment at the Chair of Business Informatics 3:
- Intern at Mühlbauer AG in Roding in the Information Management department
- Intern at Zollner Elektronik AG in Zandt in the Application Solutions department
- Working student at Zollner Elektronik AG in Zandt in the Global Engineering department
- Student assistant and part-time research assistant at the Chair of Business Informatics 3
From November 2019 to September 2026, Dr Konadl worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Informatics 3 at the University of Regensburg.
He successfully defended his doctoral thesis, entitled “Methods and Approaches for the Targeted Design of Interactions with Modern Information and Communication Systems”, in June 2025. Since then, Dr Konadl has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Business Informatics 3. In addition to his research and teaching duties, he has been supporting the President’s Office at the University of Regensburg as part of the Digitalisation Unit since May 2023.
Since October 2026, Dr Konadl has been working as a research assistant at the Professorship of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces and has been supporting Vice-President Prof. Dr Ensslin within the Digitalisation and AI Unit (external link, opens in a new window).
CV
Digital transformation
| since May 2023 | Digital Transformation Lead (Digitalisation and AI Unit) |
Academic positions
| since October 2026 | Research Assistant at the Chair of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces (Prof. Dr Ensslin) |
| 2019–2026 | Research Assistant at the Chair of Business Informatics 3 (Prof. Dr Leist) |
Academic background
| June 2025 | PhD in Business Informatics |
| 2019–2025 | PhD student at the Chair of Business Informatics 3 (Prof. Dr Leist) |
| 2017–2019 | Master of Science in Business Informatics at the University of Regensburg |
| 2014–2017 | Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics at the University of Regensburg |
Publications
Academic theses
- Konadl, D. (2017). Trigger für Emotionen in Texten – ein konzeptioneller Überblick. Bachelorarbeit. Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik 3 (Prof. Dr. Leist).
- Konadl, D. (2019). Smart Data – Anwendungsfelder und Best Practice im Unternehmenseinsatz. Masterarbeit. Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik 3 (Prof. Dr. Leist).
- Konadl, D. (2025). Methoden und Ansätze für die zielgerichtete Gestaltung der Interaktionen mit modernen Informations- und Kommunikationssystemen. Kumulative Dissertation. Universität Regensburg.
Published research papers
- Johannsen, F., Leist, S., Konadl, D., Basche, M., & de Hesselle, B. (2018). Comparison of Commercial Chatbot Solutions for Supporting Customer Interaction. In Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2018).
- Konadl, D., Wörner, J., & Leist, S. (2021). Identifying Sentiment Influences Provoked by Context Factors – Results from a Data Analytics Procedure Performed on Tweets. In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2021).
- Wörner, J., Konadl, D., Schmid, I., & Leist, S. (2021). Comparison of Topic Modelling Techniques in Marketing – Results from an Analysis of Distinctive Use Cases. In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2021).
- Ramming, L., Konadl, D., & Leist, S. (2022). Chatbot Design Features to Increase Productivity. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2022).
- Wörner, J., Konadl, D., Schmid, I., & Leist, S. (2022). Supporting Product Development by a Trend Analysis Tool Applying Aspect-Based Sentiment Detection. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2022).
- Konadl, D., Wörner, J., Luttner, L., & Leist, S. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems – A Literature-Based Assessment and Implications of Different Conversation Phases and Contexts. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023).
- Wörner, J., Konadl, D., Schmid, I., & Leist, S. (2023). MANTRA: A Topic Modeling-Based Tool to Support Automated Trend Analysis on Unstructured Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2023).
- Konadl, D. (2024). A Generative AI-Based Approach to Support Automated Utterance Generation for Different Conversational Contexts within AAC Systems. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2024).
- Konadl, D., Wörner, J., Johannsen, F., Reuter, I., & Leist, S. (2026). NutriBot: A Conversational Agent for Supporting Personalized and Healthy Everyday Dietary Practices. 21st International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2026).
- Konadl, D., Reuter, I., Johannsen, F., Leist, S., & Wörner, J. (2027). Generative AI-Based Digital Nutrition Personas for Personalized and Context-Adaptive Dietary Guidance in Conversational Nutrition Agents. In Proceedings of the 60th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2027).