About Quentir
The research foundation behind Quentir.
Quentir publishes evidence-based insights for boards, general counsel, policy leaders, and investors who have to take a position on quantum technology: the post-quantum transition, quantum governance, quantum medicine, and quantum defense. Our publications help you prepare those decisions with a clear view of where the field is heading, and the lead time to act.
Founder
Who is behind Quentir
Mauritz Kop
Mauritz Kop founded Quentir. He established the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology (Stanford RQT) and served as its Founding Director at Stanford Law School from 2023 to 2025, and he has been evangelizing quantum technology since 2018. A legal scholar and technologist, he works at the intersection of industry, academia, and policy. Quentir brings those three perspectives together in our product.
His published governance frameworks, among them the LSI test, Hippocratic Quantum, the Bletchley-PQC migration discipline, the Ten Principles for Responsible Quantum Innovation, the Quantum-ELSPI metaparadigm, and the Quantum First strategy, are the method behind every Signature Report, Signature Brief, and Evidence Register entry.
- Founding Director, Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology (2023–2025)
- Senior Fellow and Principal Investigator, CIGI
- Guest Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy
- Subject Matter Expert, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
- Quantum-ecosystem expert, von Neumann Commission
- Selected works in the Stanford Digital Repository
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His work has appeared at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, UCLA, and Vanderbilt, and in Nature and Science, among more than 100 scholarly works. His work has been featured by Forbes, MIT Sloan, Yahoo Finance, War on the Rocks, the National Library of Medicine, Harvard & Smithsonian, and The Quantum Insider.
He advised the European Commission during the AI Act process, brought copyright expertise to the European Parliament, briefed U.S. Senators and the U.S. Department of State, and advises the Pentagon on quantum strategy. As an advisor to the World Economic Forum on quantum computing ethics, he helped develop its guiding principles. His convening and policy work also informs NATO, the OECD, UNESCO, CERN, and G7-facing programs.
Quentir builds on this scholarship as its research foundation; no institutional endorsement is implied.
Why Quentir exists
From principles to practice.
Mauritz Kop founded Quentir to bring quantum technology, governance, and innovation strategy together for the people who make impactful decisions about them. He has been evangelizing quantum technology since 2018, and his frameworks, including Responsible Quantum Technology, Hippocratic Quantum, and the LSI test, set out the foundational norms, principles, and values underlying quantum governance that lets innovation breathe. Quentir is where those principles meet practice.
In quantum, the key decisions have to be made before the standards and the law are settled, and the technology becomes locked in. Quentir exists to give boards, general counsel, policy leaders, and investors that lead time.
The field is moving from laboratory results to procurement calendars, from migration plans to verified implementations, and from principles to guardrails and innovation-friendly regulation. Each Signature Report, Signature Brief, and Evidence Register entry shows where things are heading and when to act. One promise sits at its heart: technology in service of values, democracy, and liberty.
How we work
From the primary source to the decision on your table.
We start at the source
Every day we screen and select thousands of research papers, standards, regulations, and program documents covering quantum innovation, medicine, defense, and the post-quantum transition, from sources in 40 countries and 25 languages.
We weigh the evidence
What was actually demonstrated, in which setting, with which limitations the authors themselves mention, and how far it has come: from research paper to lab experiment to clinic, or from lab to battlefield.
We write for the decision
Each Brief, Report, and Register entry is written so a board can read it in one sitting, reference it, and act on it.
We keep it current
Every edition tells you when it was written, the quarterly reports say inside when it is time to look again, and Register entries carry their change history and corrections.
AI-enabled, human-led. Our systems read the primary sources at scale, every day. The frameworks, the editorial judgment, and the responsibility for every published word are human and rest with Quentir Systems LLC.
One real example
A Register entry, shown the way members see it.
First-in-human image of photon entanglement in a PET scan
The claim
A prototype J-PET scanner produced, in one patient given a standard gallium-68 DOTA-TATE tracer, the usual tracer-uptake image and, from the same scan, an image of the degree of quantum entanglement of the annihilation photons. Moskal et al. (40 authors), arXiv:2606.29421, June 28, 2026.
What was demonstrated
A hardware measurement in one living patient, taken during an extra 20-minute research scan. Liver and spleen values fell between the predictions for maximally entangled and for separable photon pairs, with uncertainties of about a quarter of each value. No comparison of healthy and diseased tissue was made.
Where it stands
Hardware experiment, at technology readiness level 4, ahead of repeat measurements, a healthy-versus-diseased comparison, and independent replication outside Kraków.
Selected publications
The scholarship Quentir builds on.
- Science · journal articleQuantum Technology Governance: A Standards-First Approach
The standards-first approach that shapes how Quentir reads every new rule, deadline, and migration calendar.
- Nature · journal articleA Call for Responsible Quantum Technology
The responsible-innovation principles that guide which developments Quentir covers and how it weighs them.
- Harvard Law · Petrie-Flom Center, Bill of HealthHippocratic Quantum: The Ethics of Biomedical Discovery in the Quantum Age
The ethic behind the Quentir Medicine Monitor and the Quantum Medicine Evidence Register: protect the person first.
- Columbia Journal of European Law · law review articleTowards a European Quantum Act
The governance frame behind Quentir’s reading of EU and U.S. quantum policy and the rules that take effect on a date.
- Stanford Law · policy essayHow Quantum Technologies May Be Integrated Into Healthcare: What Regulators Should Consider
The regulatory questions that follow quantum technology into the clinic, behind how Quentir reads each clinical claim.
- Yale Journal of Law & Technology · essayEstablishing a Legal-Ethical Framework for Quantum Technology
The legal-ethical framework, Quantum-ELSPI, that Quentir applies to defense, dual-use, and security questions.
- Berkeley Technology Law Journal · articleQuantum Computing and Intellectual Property Law
Where intellectual property law meets quantum computing, behind Quentir’s reading of patents, secrecy, and export controls.
- Fortune · commentaryHow to Prevent Quantum-AI Hybrids From Taking Over the World
The quantum-AI convergence explained for business readers, the theme Signature Report No. 3 takes up for boards.
- War on the Rocks · commentaryBefore Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First
Quantum security as a race with a calendar, the frame behind the Quentir Defense Monitor and the Defense Evidence Register.
- Stanford Libraries · digital repositoryRQT Scholarship Repository of Selected Works
The founder’s selected works in the Stanford Digital Repository, open for reading and citation.
Quentir’s Signature Reports, Signature Briefs, and Evidence Registers build on the frameworks and methods above and are published by Quentir Systems LLC as research products for your board.
Values
Democracy, liberty, and technology used responsibly.
These values decide what we cover and how we weigh it. They point us to the technologies that will shape medicine, security, and the economy of free societies, and they ask of every result the same three questions.
What is the evidence?
Every result is weighed on what was actually demonstrated, in which setting, and with which limitations, so your board decides on the evidence itself.
Whom does it reach?
We measure progress by the opportunity a technology opens and the dignity it extends to the people who have the least, in medicine, in security, and in the economy.
Who carries the responsibility?
Responsibility travels with discovery, from the first experiment to its consequences in the world. That is why technology, governance, and strategy appear together in every publication.
Where to go next
Three ways into what Quentir publishes.
Reports & Briefs
Signature Reports and Signature Briefs for boards, general counsel, and strategy teams deciding on the post-quantum transition, quantum governance, and the quantum-AI convergence.
See the reports →Medicine
The free Quentir Medicine Monitor and the Quantum Medicine Evidence Register: how far quantum sensing, imaging, simulation, and drug discovery have come on their way to the clinic.
Read the free Medicine Monitor →Defense
The free Quentir Defense Monitor and the Quantum Defense Evidence Register: quantum security, secure communications, and sensing, from lab to battlefield.
Read the free Defense Monitor →Questions boards ask
Who publishes it, whether you can reference it, and how current it is.
Who publishes this?
Quentir Systems LLC publishes Quentir Insights. Every Brief and Report builds on the founder’s published scholarship and the primary texts it discusses, and closes with a full source list.
Can we reference it?
Yes, and it is written to be referenced. Take it straight into a board paper, a memo to your counsel, or a conversation with your regulator; each edition closes with the sources it rests on.
Is this advice on our specific case?
By design, it is published insights: the same trusted read every subscriber gets, built to inform your own decisions and the conversations you bring to your board and counsel. For advice on your specific case, your own qualified advisers remain the right call.
How current is it?
Quentir publishes on a fixed cadence: a Signature Brief every month and a Signature Report every quarter, each written from the newest academic, industry, and policy sources. Each edition tells you when it was written, and the quarterly reports say inside when it is time to look again.
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