David Lamprecht was born in South Tyrol, Italy, and received both his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Physics at the University of Vienna in the Physics of Nanostructured Materials (pnm) Group of Prof. Jani Kotakoski. David joined the Institute for Microelectronics in June of 2023, where he is pursuing a PhD degree with a focus on understanding the impact of the adsorption of ambient gas molecules on the surfaces of 2D semiconducting films and on the performance of devices and sensors based on these. He works in close cooperation with his former group and uses the Nion Ultra-STEM 100 scanning-transmission electron microscope located at Sternwarte Park, Vienna to characterize 2D materials like Mos2.