Profile of Dr. Carsten Thoms 
- Science Manager with 8 years’ experience in coordinating research & research training consortia (German Excellence Initiative Graduate School, German Collaborative Research Center – Transregio, Indonesian marine biodiversity network)
- PhD and postdoctoral research on environmental & biomedical topics (awarded with the prestigious Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
- Adviser on internationalization strategies
- Managing coordinator of major grant proposals (e.g. two €9 Million grants acquired)
- Intercultural and diplomatic skills through work experience with various stakeholders in science and long-term stays in several countries (in Southeast Asia, USA, and Europe)
- Key competencies: multi-disciplinary network management & international relations in science, German and international science & higher education systems, internationalization & strategy development, early-career scientist promotion & career support, grant writing, biodiversity research, marine ecosystems, natural products research, microbe-host interactions
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Current & Past Projects - DAAD Long-Term Lectureship at the Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia (Science Management, Research & Teaching)
- Enhancing Marine Biodiversity Research in Indonesia - EMBRIO Initiative (http://embrio.ipb.ac.id/)
- Collaborative Research Center / Transregio 'FungiNet' "Pathogenic Fungi and their Human Hosts - Networks of Interaction" (www.funginet.de)
- Graduate School 'Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC)' (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de) funded within the German Excellence Initiative
- Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation "Cultivating the unculturable - New approaches to sponge-microbe symbioses" (www.humboldt-foundation.de)
- PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) in Pharmaceutical Biology & Biotechnology on "Alkaloids in sponges of the genus Aplysina - chemical ecology and associated microorganisms" (www.spongepage.info)
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