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Doron Rotem is a leading researcher in the field of data management for massive scientific datasets, with a particular focus on tertiary storage systems. His work addresses the critical challenge of efficiently storing, organizing, and accessing petabytes of data generated by scientific experiments and simulations—data too vast for conventional disk systems. Rotem pioneered techniques for multidimensional indexing and query coordination on robotic tape libraries, enabling practical management of hundreds of terabytes of data. His most cited work, "Multidimensional indexing and query coordination for tertiary storage management" (2003, 65 citations), provides foundational methods for navigating complex data structures on slow, sequential-access media. Earlier contributions, such as "Efficient organization and access of multi-dimensional datasets on tertiary storage systems" (1995, 54 citations), established core principles for optimizing storage objects on robotic devices. Rotem also explored interoperability solutions, using CORBA to coordinate storage systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) applications. His performance evaluations of mass storage systems for scientific databases provided crucial benchmarks. Through these contributions, Rotem has enabled the practical use of cost-effective tape storage for large-scale scientific computing, directly supporting data-intensive fields like physics and climate modeling.