Dr Torsten F. Reimer (e-mail)
Programme Manager, Digital Infrastructure
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
1st floor, Brettenham House
5 Lancaster Place
London, WC2E 7EN
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As a JISC programme manager I am responsible for projects funded under the JISC's research infrastructure programme. It deals with the development of, and the support for, information and computing technologies to facilitate all phases of research processes. My role also involves providing strategic direction to the JISC's digital infrastructure strategy.
If you are interested in photography, visit Torsten Reimer's photo page on Flickr.
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). At King's, I founded arts-humanities.net.
In previous roles, I was the Web Co-ordinator for (LMU), the University of Munich, and ICT Project Co-ordinator and research associate at LMU's history department. While my main focus was on the Server Early Modern History, I co-founded historicum.net, a history portal and platform for humanities e-publications.
I do also have experience in (digital) libraries, for instance through work with the Bavarian State Library (BSB) and as an IT consultant, project developer and researcher/editor for a publisher 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.