3D Digital Heritage Researcher and Technologist - Baandomein

Maastricht University; Maastricht; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Maastricht University invites applications for a 3D Digital Heritage Researcher and Technologist. You will bridge humanities and software development, refining 3D scholarly models and ensuring that infrastructure developments remain grounded in authentic scholarly workflows and requirements.

You will co-design with user communities through labs, hackathons, and training sessions, translating user needs into robust technical specifications and feeding findings back into the development cycle.

Qualifications

• Experience with 3D modelling in research contexts.
• Ability to translate user needs into technical specifications.
• Experience coordinating with interdisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Co-design with user communities through labs, hackathons, and trainings; translate findings into technical specs and feed back into the development cycle.
• Collaborate with humanities, social science researchers, cultural heritage professionals, and software developers to refine 3D scholarly models and infrastructure.

Skills

3D modelling

Coding knowledge

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Job description

PURE3D 2.0 is creating the world’s first open, sustainable, and FAIR-compliant infrastructure for 3D Scholarly Editions. We are looking for an experienced 3D Heritage Researcher with 3D modelling skills and coding knowledge to act as a bridge between humanities and social science researchers, cultural heritage professionals, and software developers. You will assist with making and refining 3D scholarly models as well as help ensure that the needs of research communities are translated into robust technical specifications and that new infrastructure developments remain grounded in authentic scholarly workflows and requirements.

3D Digital Heritage Researcher and Technologist

• Our goal: PURE3D 2.0 is an Open Science NL Infrastructure project (2026-2029). We are building a modular, interoperable, open-source platform (by extending the first phase of PURE3D ) for creating and publishing 3D research outputs that are richly annotated, FAIR-compliant, and peer-reviewed, serving academics, GLAM professionals, educators, and the public across Europe.
• Your colleagues: You will join a dynamic, international team led by Dr Costas Papadopoulos (Maastricht University) and including partners from the University of Amsterdam, TU Delft, Open University, the Netherlands eScience Center, and DANS, as well as collaboration partners such as the Smithsonian Institution, DARIAH-EU, Europeana, the Rijksmuseum, and the National Library of the Netherlands. Within UM’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), you will work closely with two Senior RSEs (based at NL eScience Center), a Digital Content and Community Building Specialist, a research assistant, and the project’s PI and Project Manager.

What you do

• Co-design with user communities: Actively develop and participate in co-creation labs, hackathons, training and testing sessions with scholars, GLAM professionals, and educators, developing and translating user requirements into technical specifications and feeding findings back into the development cycle.