Philipp Crocoll studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and holds a PhD in Navigation Technologies. In 2015, he joined the very young start-up company Atlatec as a software developer. He contributed to many parts of Atlatec's software stack for HD map creation. Since 2020, Philipp Crocoll is leading the map production team at Atlatec, which became part of Bosch in 2022.