Philipp Rigoll studied physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In his bachelor thesis, he dealt with the analysis and visualization of data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN. He completed his master’s degree in Naturwissenschaftliche Informatik at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He wrote his master thesis titled „Autonome Objekterfassung und -inspektion in unbekannter Umgebung mittels monokularer Kamera auf einer Mikro-Drohne“ in cooperation with the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. Since October 2019, he works as a research assistant in the research division ESS.