EuroTech Rising Innovation Stars Award 2026 for MQSC’s CTO Lukas Burgholzer
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.
MQSC co-founder and CTO Lukas Burgholzer received the EuroTech Rising Innovation Stars Award 2026 at the EuroTech Summit in Brussels on 28 October 2026. The award recognizes his contributions to software that makes quantum computers easier to use and connects them with classical computing systems.
The EuroTech Universities Alliance honors early-career researchers in two categories, Research and Innovation. The Innovation category recognizes work that turns research into solutions with potential benefits for society, including ventures emerging from academic research.
From open-source research to industrial use
Lukas’s contributions include the Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT), an open-source collection of tools for quantum simulation, compilation, verification, error correction, and more. His work connects research on quantum software with tools that developers can use and build on.
That work also helped lay the foundations for MQSC. When Lukas co-founded the company in 2025, the aim was to bring these capabilities into industrial use and make quantum-classical integration more repeatable and accessible. Alongside his role at MQSC, he continues his research at the Technical University of Munich.
The entire MQSC team congratulates Lukas on this recognition of his research and his work to put it into practice.