Dr Torsten F. Reimer
Development Manager
Centre for e-Research (CeRch)
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
If you are interested in e-research and digital humanities, have a look at arts-humanities.net, the project I develop for CeRch.
My main research interests are digital humanities and (digital) history; digital communication; electronic publishing; digital infrastructure for research and teaching; virtual communities, especially virtual research and learning environments; and early modern English history - especially media and communication history, national identity and everything relating to maritime history.
Before joining the Centre for e-Research, I was Senior Research Project Co-ordinator at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) - both centres are based at King's College London.
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 research on early modern English national identity and its relation to the sea 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.