The newly established 'Playground & Laboratory for New Technologies: The Plant', a research and education infrastructure at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Maastricht University is hiring a Creative Lab Technologist and a Research Software Engineer to contribute to its mission. The Plant aims to support researchers, educators, and students in engaging with technologies and opening up new societally relevant research and teaching paths, through collaboration, exchange, and experimentation. The Plant will add to the digital infrastructure at Maastricht University by catering to needs that are specific to the humanities and social sciences, while also fostering ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and education: group-based and technology-oriented with diverse and atypical outputs, including but not limited to podcasts, (online) digital exhibitions and collections, videos, datasets, interactive 2D/3D visualisations, databases, prototypes, and software. The PLANT will also support current and future efforts in the areas of Open Science, data management, FAIR data and data-related ethical and legal requirements. Further information: Creative Lab Technologist: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319253/creative-lab-technologist/ https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319253/creative-lab-technologist/ Research Software Engineer: <https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319255/research-software-engineer-in-hu manities-and-social-sciences/> https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319255/research-software-engineer-in-hum anities-and-social-sciences/ Deadline to apply: 15 November 2022 Application Documents: Motivation Letter, CV, Portfolio (if applicable) Interviews: early December 2022 Starting date: 9th January 2023 or soon thereafter Duration of appointment: 1 year full-time, with a possibility of tenure Remuneration: According to Collective Labour Agreement (see specifics for each position) + Holiday allowance 8% + End-of-Year Bonus 8.3%, Pension Scheme, Parental Leave, 40 days off per year, Bicycle plan etc. If you have any questions, please contact the Coordinator of the PLANT Executive Cooperative Group, Dr Costas Papadopoulos (k.papadopoulos[AT]maastrichtuniversity.nl) -- Costas Papadopoulos BA, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studies https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/maastricht-young-academy Maastricht Young Academy Department of Literature & Art Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) Maastricht University Principal Investigator: https://pure3d.eu/ PURE3D Coordinator: https://twitter.com/PlantFasos The Plant: Playground and Laboratory for New Technologies UM Profile: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/k.papadopoulos https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/k.papadopoulos ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas_Papadopoulos5 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas_Papadopoulos5 Academia: https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/CostasPapadopoulos https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/CostasPapadopoulos Twitter: https://twitter.com/Papadopoulos_C @Papadopoulos_C Please note, my typical working hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, though I may send emails outside these hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your normal working hours.