Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (born 7 August 1987) is a German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber.

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
Nguyen-Kim in 2017
Born (1987-08-07) 7 August 1987
Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany
OccupationGerman chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber
Children1

Early life and education

Nguyen-Kim was born in 1987 in Heppenheim, Hessen, West Germany; her parents are from South Vietnam, her father is also a chemist.[1] She completed the Abitur in 2006 in Hemsbach. She studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] She worked on her doctorate at RWTH Aachen University, Harvard University, and the University of Potsdam; completing it in 2017.[3] She rejected a job offer from BASF to focus on science communication.[2] She is married and has a daughter born in 2020.[4][5]

Career
Nguyen-Kim and Tom Buhrow at Media Convention Berlin 2019

Nguyen-Kim started the YouTube channel The Secret Life Of Scientists in 2015. She began another channel, maiLab (originally named schönschlau), which is funded by German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF and as of April 2020 has nearly 900,000 subscribers, in 2016.[6]

She published on her YouTube-channel maiLab popular videos about the Coronavirus-pandemic.[7][8][9] Her videos made it into German YouTube trends and reached several million viewers within a short time.[10]

She also contributed a widely noticed commentary on this topic in the German news programme "Tagesthemen" (ARD)[11] and was invited as an expert in various talk shows.[12]

On German television, Nguyen-Kim presents the science show Quarks (WDR Fernsehen) since 2018, alongside Ralph Caspers.[2] With Harald Lesch and Philip Häusser she presents the online video series Terra X Lesch & Co.[6]

Her book Komisch, alles chemisch (in English: Weird, all chemical) published in March 2019 has been on the "Spiegel" bestseller list since November 2019.[5]

Awards

Publications
  • Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi (2019). Komisch, alles chemisch! (in German). Droemer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-426-27767-6.

References
  1. Wolff, Beate (1 May 2019). ""Alles Chemie" – Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim". WDR 5 (in German). Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  2. Agarwala, Anant (5 June 2019). "Bei ihr macht's klick". Zeit Campus (in German). Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  3. Bernardy, Katja (27 August 2019). "Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim spricht in Trier - "Sind YouTuber die besseren Lehrer?"". Trierischer Volksfreund (in German). Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  4. Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi (2020-04-01). "Unser Baby ist da. Es ist supersüß, schon 11 Wochen alt. #maiLab geht wieder los, morgen 9 Uhr - es wird interessant". @maithi_nk (in German). Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  5. "maiLab: "Je länger wir für die Recherche gebraucht haben, desto besser kommt es an"". www.brandeins.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  6. "Nachgefragt – bei Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim" (Interview) (in German). Wissenschaft im Dialog. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  7. "maiLab". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  8. "Corona geht gerade erst los". YouTube (in German). 2020-04-02. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  9. "Virologen-Vergleich" (in German). 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  10. "Wissenschafts-Youtuberin maiLab erklärt Corona-Szenarien: Warum "Flatten the Curve" nicht reicht". rtl.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  11. "Herdenimmunität? @maiLab kommentiert in den tagesthemen". YouTube (in German). 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  12. "Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim kritisiert bei Lanz Lockerung der Corona-Maßnahmen". YouTube (in German). 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  13. "Grimme Online Award 2018 — Die Preisträger" (in German). Grimme-Institut. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  14. "„maiLab" gewinnt Webvideopreis 2018". funk.net (Press release) (in German). 30 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  15. "Die Journalisten und Journalistinnen des Jahres 2018". Medium Magazin (Press release) (in German). 18 December 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  16. ""Ausnahmetalent": WDR-Moderatorin Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim erhält Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis". presseportal.de (Press release) (in German). Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
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