Konrad Paul Körding (born 1973) is a German neuroscience professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Neuromatch and the Community for Rigor.
[3][4][5][6] In 2023, Kording was one of several prominent scientists leading calls to reverse engineer an entire nervous system.
[7] After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down neuroscience summer schools and workshops worldwide in 2020, Kording co-founded Neuromatch, a non-profit organization focused on promoting equity in the sciences and advancing open science policies, alongside Megan Peters, Paul Schrater, Sean Escola, Athena Akrami, Kate Bonnen, Carsen Stringer, Brad Wyble, and Gunnar Blohm.
As an organization, Neuromatch has quickly risen to the forefront of the open science and remote learning movements, enjoying extensive news coverage in the wake of both its success and its efforts to obtain special permission from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control to teach students from Iran.
[18] That same month, Kording was awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health to "develop a user-friendly, open-source educational platform of modules that address biases in research, logical fallacies around causality, hypothesis development, literature search design, identifying experimental variables, and reducing confounding variables in research.