Johan Pouwelse
Associate Professor
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorJohan Pouwelse is an associate professor and scientific director of Europe's largest blockchain lab at Delft University of Technology, leading a 12-professor team that trains 65 master-level blockchain engineers annually. He has been researching distributed ledgers since 2007 and founded Blockchain-lab.org, building one of the largest experimental groups focused on self-organizing, blockchain-based Internet systems. His work centers on trust and identity, aiming to create scalable, attack-resilient token economies used by millions and to devise fundamental mechanisms for trust. Based in The Hague, he blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic system-building, shepherding long-running experimental deployments rather than just theoretical proposals. An often overlooked strength is his sustained focus on education-driven research, producing a steady pipeline of practitioners who turn lab prototypes into real-world infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (16)
tor10
streaming10
python9
transmission9
peer-to-peer9
bittorrent9
discovery9
privacy9
peer8
torrent8
p2p8
blockchain4
database2
messaging2
elastic1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
blockchain-lab/shared_vision_towards_programmable_economy
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes in 20 days
nationalblockchainpaper-basedvision
Tribler/tribler
Jul 2016 - Apr 2020
Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
Contributions:5 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 9 months
pythoncontent-discoverytransmissionprivacyp2p
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