Dr Torsten F. Reimer
Programme Manager, e-Research
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Brettenham House
5 Lancaster Place
London, WC2E 7EN
In a digital context, my main interests are research infrastructure (in a wider sense), virtual research/learning environments, and digital humanities. In a former life as historian they also included early modern English history - especially media and communication history, national identity and everything relating to maritime history.
Two of my previous projects are arts-humanities.net (for those interested in Digital Humanities and Arts) and the Virtual Research Environment Collaborative Landscape study.
Before joining JISC, I worked at King's College London, first as Senior Research Project Co-ordinator at the AHRC ICT Methods Network, based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), and as Development Manager, Community Infrastructure and E-Learning at the Centre for e-Research (CeRch)
In previous roles, I worked as the Web Co-ordinator for (LMU), the University of Munich, and as an ICT Project Co-ordinator and research associate for LMU's history department. While my main focus back then was on the Server Early Modern History, I co-founded historicum.net, a web portal and platform for humanities e-publications.
I do also have experience in (digital) libraries, mainly through work at and with the Bavarian State Library (BSB) and as an IT consultant, project developer and researcher/editor for a publishing house and a major software company.
I have an M.A. in history and philosophy and a Ph.D. in history from LMU. My Ph.D. research was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German National Academic Foundation.
My dissertation Before Britannia ruled the Waves. The Construction of a Maritime Nation is available (in German) as an electronic publication via LMU.