Christoph Stampfer is currently Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at the RWTH Aachen University and researcher at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is primary interests include graphene and 2D materials research, mesoscopic transport, and micro electromechanical systems. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Technical Physics from the TU Vienna and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the ETH Zurich. He was a staff member at the Institute for Micro and Nano Systems of the ETH Zurich from 2003 to 2007 and staff member of the Institute for Solid State Physics (ETH Zurich) from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 till 2013 he was JARA-FIT Junior Professor at the RWTH Aachen and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He has been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant to work on "Graphene Quantum Electromechanical Systems" in 2011, was member of the Young Scientist community from the World Economic Forum from 2014 to 2016 and he is spokesperson of the Aachen Graphene and 2D Materials Center since 2017.