Biography

Lukas Lutz is a battery chemist and entrepreneur at the intersection of deep science and applied AI. He holds a PhD from the Collège de France and the University of Oxford, conducted research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and studied management at INSEAD. Earlier in his career, he built an industrial AI business at GFT Technologies SE. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sphere Energy, where he leads the development of APEX, a physics-informed Foundation AI Operating System for the engineering world. Sphere Energy operates testing facilities in Augsburg and AI Labs in Munich, Zurich, and Paris. Lukas brings rare breadth to advisory roles: deep technical fluency in energy storage technologies and AI, hands-on experience building investor relations and technology brands across Europe, and a practitioner’s perspective on how AI is reshaping engineering-heavy industries. Since 2020, Lukas serves on the Technology Advisory Board of Festool, a leading global power tool brand. He is also active as Board Advisor of Europe’s largest Battery Conference, “The Battery Show” since 2022.