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Peter Druschel
Alma mater	University of Arizona (Ph.D., 1994) Munich University of Applied Sciences (Dipl.-Ing. (FH), 1986)
Known for	Pastry DHT Flash web server Fast buffers (fbufs) Resource containers
Awards	SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2008) EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award (2017) Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2000) NSF CAREER Award (1995)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Rice University
Thesis	Operating System Support for High-Speed Networking
Doctoral advisor	Larry Peterson
Website	https://people.mpi-sws.org/~druschel/

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

Education and career

Druschel studied electrical engineering, specializing in data technology, at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and completed his studies as a graduate engineer. He graduated in 1994 from the University of Arizona under Larry L. Peterson. In the same year, he became 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 at the Saarbrücken Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as the founding director. Druschel specializes in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks, security, and operating systems. Along with Ant Rowstron, Druschel developed the Pastry distributed hash table technique at Microsoft. In 2008, Druschel was elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In the same year, he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea. He is also a recipient of the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.

External links

• Peter Druschel publications indexed by Google Scholar