# Sven Dorkenwald
**Entity class:** Concept or analytic term
**Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
**Type:** Connectomics researcher
**Primary sources:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]; [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]
## Relationships
- Lead author in the [[wiki/FlyWire Consortium|FlyWire Consortium]] publication described by the annual report.
- Completed a Ph.D. at [[wiki/Princeton University|Princeton University]] in 2023.
- Subsequently held the [[wiki/Shanahan Fellowship|Shanahan Fellowship]] associated with the [[wiki/Allen Institute|Allen Institute]] and [[wiki/University of Washington|University of Washington]].
- The atlas identifies a later MIT and McGovern Institute role in whole-mouse-brain connectomics; this is a later career transition, not a FlyWire institutional identity.
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## Related Work in the Corpus
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- In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **FlyWire: Whole-Brain Completeness at Insect Scale** provides the narrative context for **Sven Dorkenwald**: The FlyWire Consortium, co-led by Mala Murthy (Director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Karol and Marnie Marcin '96 Professor of Neuroscience) and Sebastian Seung (Evnin Professor in Neuroscience and Professor of…
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