Jörgen is a postdoctoral associate at MIT and has more than 10 years of experience in the area of EM based connectomics. He has worked on all steps of the connectomics pipeline, ranging from sample preparation in the wet lab to machine learning based automatic tracing and synapse detection. Jörgen received a Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship for his doctoral studies with Prof. Winfried Denk at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich where he collected multiple massive EM datasets of songbird brain tissue and developed state-of-the-art automated analysis methods, while co-founding ariadne.ai, one of the leading startups in biomedical image analysis. He collaborates closely with laboratories at New York University, Max Planck and Google Research to push the boundaries of the field and enable cubic centimeter scale connectomes at synaptic resolution.