Bio
Mauritz Kop is a CIGI senior fellow and the founder of the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology (RQT) and the creator of the Stanford Quantum Incubator. As a distinguished technology lawyer, scholar, policy adviser and investor, Mauritz supports deep-tech startups through RQT Ventures and serves as an expert on the von Neumann Commission. He holds a patent in artificial intelligence (AI), is the director at AIRecht and serves as general counsel at Daiki, a platform dedicated to advancing a responsible quantum-AI future.
Mauritz’s interdisciplinary research spans AI regulation, machine learning training data, intellectual property (IP) and quantum technologies. His work has been published in scholarly journals by Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and in leading outlets such as Nature, Science, Foreign Policy and Fortune. He is a key contributor to the development of new legal frameworks for quantum information technology, designing governance blueprints that integrate risk management, regulatory compliance, performance metrics and safety standards. In 2025, Stanford University Libraries permanently archived his group’s work in the RQT repository.
He has authored over 100 scholarly works on AI, quantum, ethics and responsible innovation across sectors including health care, defence, clean technology and the arts. He is a frequent speaker at forums such as NASA, the Center for a New American Security, World Summit AI, IBM Quantum and XPANSE Abu Dhabi. Beyond his academic work, Mauritz advises leading cultural institutions on IP and explores the intersection of quantum science and art through his Quantum Meets Fractal Geometric Art installation.
Globally, Mauritz advises governments and international bodies including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Group of Seven (G7), the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the World Economic Forum on responsible quantum innovation strategies. He has contributed to influential EU legislation, including the AI Act, the Copyright Directive, the Data Act and the upcoming European Quantum Act, and has advised the US Senate and the Department of State on AI and quantum regulation.
From 2023 to 2025, Mauritz served as the executive director of the Stanford Center for RQT at Stanford Law School. In this role, he co-hosted the Stanford RQT Conference and the Stanford Quantum Incubator workshop and convened policy meetings with leaders from the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada and Taiwan. His work directly informed the G7 Kananaskis quantum policy agenda in 2025.
Previously, Mauritz was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology and held fellowships at the Stanford Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and the Copenhagen-Cambridge-Harvard International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation and Law Programme, where he focused on quantum and AI applications in the life sciences.
He has taught IP and technology law at institutions such as the US Air Force Academy, Fordham School of Law, the University of Strasbourg, Leiden University and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has also trained legal professionals and Supreme Court judges at Radboud University.
Mauritz studied IP law, labour law, contract law and law and biosciences at Stanford Law School, Maastricht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.