Dick Epema

Dick Epema studied mathematics in Leiden and computer science in Delft, and he obtained his PhD degree in mathematics in Leiden in 1983. He has been with TU Delft since 1984, first as an assistant and an associate professor, and since 2015 as full professor of Distributed Systems. He has also been a part-time full professor at TU Eindhoven. His research is in the two areas of cloud computing and big-data processing, and cooperative systems and blockchain technology. He is the director of the Delft Blockchain Lab, which brings together all blockchain-related research of TU Delft, and which has as its goal to digitize trust for society and the economy.