Lukas was born in Hanau, a city next to Frankfurt, Germany. He graduated from Philipps Universität Marburg in 2016 working with Prof. Dr. Robert Langer working on Ruthenium, Rhodium and Iridium PCP-Carbodiphosphorane Pincer Complexes. He then joined the group of Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider at the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, where he graduated with a PhD working on Electrochemical Dinitrogen Fixation in 2022. After one year of PostDoc in the same group he joined Prof. Dr. Alex Millers Group working on an Industry Collaboration Project with Eastman Chem. Corp.