Lukas Burgholzer has won the Innovation category of the EuroTech Rising Stars Award 2026 for his work on quantum computing software and its integration with classical computing systems.
The fourth Munich Quantum Software Forum brought together the quantum software community for two days of talks, pitches, and meet-ups — co-organized by MQSC and TUM, with a clear signal from the field: the community is ready for real software engineering.
From superconducting qubits to photonic computing, compiler infrastructure to fault-tolerant stacks — MQSC covered the full quantum software landscape at IEEE Quantum Week 2026, and came home with a Best Paper Award.
MQT Core 4.0 brings quantum-classical compilation, measurement feedback, and device integration into the core of the Munich Quantum Toolkit — a major step toward software infrastructure fit for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
© Andreas Gebert/StMWKMQSC’s CTO Lukas Burgholzer has been awarded the High-Tech Young Talent Award 2026 by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Arts and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences — one of Bavaria’s most prestigious recognitions for outstanding scientific achievement.
MQSC joined ISC 2026 in Hamburg with work on QDMI integration for IQM systems and Amazon Braket, connecting quantum resources to HPC software.
IQM Quantum Computers has launched its new HPC Integration Service, enabling quantum systems to run as scheduled compute nodes alongside CPUs and GPUs — built on QDMI, the open quantum interface standard implemented by MQSC.
MQSC co-founders Lukas Burgholzer and Robert Wille have published the definitive guide to the Munich Quantum Toolkit — giving researchers and developers an in-depth look at the methods and ideas behind one of the most widely used open-source quantum software frameworks in the world.
MQSC is contributing to FullStaQD, a German flagship project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space, aiming to build a fully open and interoperable quantum computing software stack — from hardware all the way to applications.
MQSC and TUM launch the MQT Compiler Collection — a compiler framework built on MLIR that takes a deliberate classical-first approach to quantum-classical compilation, designed to be powerful today and sustainable for the long run.
In a joint effort with Amazon Web Services, MQSC demonstrates how QDMI can integrate a real-world quantum cloud service — bringing Amazon Braket’s full range of simulators and hardware backends under a single, standardized interface.
Xanadu’s PennyLane and its Catalyst compiler are now integrated with the Munich Quantum Toolkit — bringing advanced quantum compilation directly into one of the most widely used quantum programming frameworks, with just a single line of code.
In Osaka, Lukas Burgholzer and Patrick Hopf joined the HPC community to discuss quantum software stacks and practical compiler integration.
At Supercomputing 2025 in St. Louis, MQSC’s CTO Lukas Burgholzer showcased the joint work with IQM on quantum-HPC integration — demonstrating how QDMI is turning quantum-classical workflows from concept into production reality.
MQT Bench 2.0 brings a major overhaul to quantum circuit benchmarking — more modular, standards-aligned, and extensible, with new benchmarks, broader device support, and a cleaner API throughout.
Lukas Burgholzer’s QDMI contribution to the QRUCH workshop addressed the software interfaces needed to connect quantum resources with HPC.
