He developed freshness-aware scheduling (FAS), a novel approach to replication management in massive clusters that allows clients to trade data freshness for query performance. Associate Professor Röhm completed a Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2002. He then worked as an IT consultant in Germany before joining the University of Sydney in 2004. He has been a visiting researcher with Microsoft’s SQL Server group and is Chief Investigator on an ARC-funded Discovery Project and also on a Linkage Project funded by ARC and Microsoft.