Projects & Funding

Funding acquisition

Over €2 million

In awarded funding for the Quantum Compilation Group at Fraunhofer IIS across six projects, which I helped secure as acquisition lead and contributor.

Research projects

I directly contribute and partially manage the following projects.

Q-GeneSys

We develop early fault-tolerance methods for generative quantum models.

Partners	Siemens AG · IQM Germany GmbH · OTH Regensburg
Duration	October 2025 – September 2028
Funding	Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) · Application-Oriented Quantum Informatics

NearQEC-RL

Funding	Commissioned by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation through Fraunhofer HNFIZ

BayQS

The project explores hybrid quantum algorithms and quantum machine learning for wireless communication and localization.

Partners	Fraunhofer AISEC · Fraunhofer IKS · LMU Munich · TU Munich · Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
Duration	November 2020 – October 2027
Funding	Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs (StMWi)

Bench-QC

The project developed modular benchmarks for industrial quantum-computing applications.

Partners	Fraunhofer IKS · BMW AG · Quantinuum GmbH · Machine Learning Reply GmbH · OptWare GmbH
Duration	January 2023 – June 2026
Funding	Munich Quantum Valley · High-Tech Agenda Bayern

Advisory and consulting roles

My involvement in the following projects is advisory or consultative.

QC-Train

The project develops quantum-computing methods for more efficient training of foundation models.

Partners	infoteam Software AG · OptWare GmbH
Duration	July 2026 – June 2029
Funding	Free State of Bavaria · Bavarian Collaborative Research Program “Digitalization” (BayVFP)

QACI

QACI develops quantum algorithms and open-source tools for applications, cloud services, and infrastructure.

Partners	Fraunhofer AISEC · Fraunhofer IISB · Fraunhofer IKS · LMU Munich · TU Munich · Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
Duration	October 2021 – September 2026
Funding	Munich Quantum Valley · High-Tech Agenda Bayern