Bio of Johan Pouwelse

Dr. ir. J.A. Pouwelse is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, at the PDS group.

He is the technical coordinator of the project you are currently visiting. Tribler is being developed by a team of 18 full-time people.

Some time ago Dr. Pouwelse conducted one of the largest measurements of the Bittorrent P2P network. This detailed measurement study ran over a period of two years and discovered many unique properties of this P2P market leader. He delivered a statement for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, was a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and recently spent a few months at Harvard Business School to study the economic impact of movie downloads on Hollywood.