Daniel studied Chemical Engineering at Graz University of Technology. During his PhD thesis, he recognized the demand for a less harmful sample preparation approach for thermoplastics. Daniel simplified consisting preparation approaches such as hot pressing and injection molding and reduced the design to its essentials. Vacuum compression molding (VCM) was born in beginning of 2014. The VCM tool has grown in two years to a thought out and simple solution to prepare best-quality samples starting from powders.