Presenter

Lukas Burgholzer works as a research scientist in the Chair for Design Automation at the Technical University of Munich, under Dr. Robert Wille, and as CTO of the Munich Quantum Software Company. He received his PhD from Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria, in 2024, working as part of the Institute for Integrated Circuits. His research focuses on design automation tools and software for quantum computing. In these areas, he has published more than 60 papers in international conferences and journals. He is the chief developer of the Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT), as well as one of the technical leads of the Munich Quantum Software Stack (MQSS) project. For his research, Lukas has been awarded the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, the Heinz Zemanek Award, and others.