Nikolaos Beer is a research assistant at the Max-Reger-Institut since 2026, working at the scholarly music edition project Reger-Werkausgabe. He is responsible for research software development and data curation.
| 01/2020 to 12/2025 |
Research assistant, „Verbundstelle Musikedition“, Reger-Werkausgabe, University of Paderborn Since January 2020, Nikolaos Beer has been consulting and supporting the Reger-Werkausgabe at the Max-Reger-Institut in Karlsruhe. Responsibilities: research data management, data curation, research software development, digital edition publications. |
| 03/2016 to 12/2019 |
Research assistant, „Verbundstelle Musikedition“, Reger-Werkausgabe and OPERA, University of Paderborn Since March 2016, Nikolaos Beer has been has been consulting and supporting the two Edirom-based projects “Reger-Werkausgabe” (Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe) and “OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen” (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main). |
| 07/2012 to 02/2016 |
Research assistant, „Verbundstelle Musikedition“, (RWA/OPERA) and DARIAH-DE, University of Paderborn Since 2012, Nikolaos Beer has been a research assistant at the Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn. As part of the „Verbundstelle Musikedition“, he supported the two Edirom-based projects “Reger-Werkausgabe” (Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe) and “OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen” (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main). Until February 2016, he was also responsible for the development of the MEI Score Editor (MEISE) as part of the BMBF project “Digital Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities” (DARIAH-DE). |
| 04/2007 to 06/2012 |
Reger-Werkausgabe, Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe He had been working as a student assistant at the Max-Reger-Institut in Karlsruhe since 2007, where he later became a member of the long-term project “Hybrid Edition Reger-Werkausgabe” sponsored by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. There, he supervised the implementation of the digital music edition based on Edirom Tools. |
| 10/2005 to 10/2011 |
Studies in musicology/music informatics, Karlsruhe University of Music Nikolaos Beer studied musicology/music informatics at the Karlsruhe University of Music until 2009, minoring in applied cultural studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He then continued his studies in the master's program in musicology at the Karlsruhe University of Music, graduating in 2011. |
