Peter Druschel

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Peter Druschel (born April 22, 1959 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a German computer scientist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken .

Life

Druschel studied electrical engineering with a focus on data technology at the Munich University of Applied Sciences until 1986 and graduated with a degree in engineering . He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1994 under the supervision of Larry L. Peterson . In the same year he became an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University . In 2000 he became an associate professor, followed by a full professorship in 2002. In August 2005 he started his work in Germany as founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken .

In 2000 and 2001 he gained experience during a research semester in the SRC group of the Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) (May to June 2000), at the Cambridge Distributed Systems group of Microsoft Research Cambridge (August to December 2000) , and the PDOS group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (January-June 2001).

He deals with distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks and their security and with operating systems. With Ant Rowstron he developed the pastry technique at Microsoft.

In 2008 Druschel was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Peter Druschel (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Peter Druschel. Academia Europaea, accessed June 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Druschel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Reichenhall