Lukas Burgholzer is CTO and co-founder of MQSC and a Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Munich’s Chair for Design Automation. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2023. His work spans the quantum computing software stack, from simulation, compilation, and verification to HPCQC integration. He oversees the development of the Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT) and the Munich Quantum Software Stack (MQSS), and is a lead developer and maintainer of the Quantum Device Management Interface (QDMI), an emerging de facto standard for interoperable quantum-hardware integration. He has published 80+ papers, with over 2.6k citations and an h-index of 30. His work has received, among others, the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Heinz Zemanek Prize.