Personal Information

Christoph Stampfer

E-Mail: christoph@stampfer.com
URL: www.stampfer.com

Mother tongue: German
Nationality Italian

Education

Primary School: Five years in Völs am Schlern
Secondary School: Three years in Kastelruth
Highschool: Five years Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" (Field: Industrial Electronics) in Bozen
Matura (equivalent to A-level): Juli 1996.

Beginning of Studies: October 1996, Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Vienna (Faculty of Eletrical Engineering)
              October 1997, Physics at the Technical University Vienna
End of the first Study-Phase (four Terms): June 1999: Technical Physics
              January 2000: Electrical Engineering
ERASMUS-Exchange: September 2000 till July 2001 Physic studies at Napier University in Edinburgh
              Scotland (GB), Programme : BSc Applied Physics with Computing
Master Thesis: February 2002 - Januray 2003, "Semiclassical theory for ballistic transport through semiconductor microstructures";
              advisor J. Burgdörfer.
End of the Master-Programme Januray 2003: Dipl.-Ing. (Master degree) in Technical Physics (specialization on Theoretical Solid
              State Physics)
PhD - Programme: February 2003 - December 2006: PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
               (Micro and Nanosystems) at the ETH Zurich; advisor C. Hierold. (additional courses at the Hochschule für Gestaltung
               und Kunst Zürich [HGKZ])

Specialization: Theoretical Solid State Physics and Semiconductor Technologies, Information Technology, Micro Electromechanical
              Systems (MEMS), Nanotechnology and Nano Electromechanical Systems (NEMS), in particular carbon nanotube based
              NEMS.