Peter Druschel (born 22 April 1959 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German computer scientist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken.
In the same year he became Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rice University.
[8] In August 2005 he started his work at Saarbrücken's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as the founding director.
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.