Philipp Achenbach completed his Master’s degree in mechatronics at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2018. His thesis was about full-body reconstruction using inverse kinematics in the context of virtual reality. He joined the Multimedia Communications Lab of the Technical University of Darmstadt as a research assistant in March 2019 and moved with his group to the Department of Electrical Engineering in early 2022. He researches the area of hand-gesture recognition using wearables in the context of sign language. For this, he is also intensively working on the application of different machine learning classifiers. In addition, he is active in teaching (Serious Games and previously Communication Networks II).