Dr. Ben Thuy studied Earth sciences with a focus on palaeontology at the University of Tübingen, ‎Germany, graduating in 2010. He then carried out his doctoral studies on the evolution of the deep-‎sea fauna at the University of Göttingen. After a short postdoc period in 2012, his professional ‎career took a detour into the non-academic world, where he worked as a secondary school teacher ‎and environmental engineer. In 2015, he then entered his current position as the palaeontology ‎curator at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHNL) in Luxembourg. Apart from his duties ‎as a senior researcher specializing on the fossil record and evolution of echinoderms, he co-‎supervises master and PhD students, leads excavation campaigns, curates the palaeontological ‎collection of the MNHNL and engages in scientific outreach activities.‎