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Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (born 7 August 1987) is a German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber. In June 2020 she was elected to the senate of the Max Planck Society. Life and education Nguyen-Kim was born in 1987 in Heppenheim, Hesse; her parents are from South Vietnam, her father is also a chemist. She completed the Abitur in 2006 in Hemsbach. She studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She worked on her doctorate at RWTH Aachen University, Harvard University, and the University of Potsdam; completing it in 2017. She rejected a job offer from BASF to focus on science communication. She is married and has a daughter born in January 2020. Career 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 September 2020 has over 1 million subscribers, in 2016. She published popular videos about the COVID-19 pandemic on maiLab which made it into German YouTube trends and reached several million viewers within a short time. She also contributed a widely noticed commentary on this topic in the German news programme Tagesthemen (ARD) and was invited as an expert in various talk shows. On German television, Nguyen-Kim presents the science show Quarks (WDR Fernsehen) since 2018, alongside Ralph Caspers. With Harald Lesch and Philip Häusser she presents the online video series Terra X Lesch & Co. Since October 2021, she presents a TV show called MAITHINK X – Die Show on ZDFneo. Her book Komisch, alles chemisch (transl. Weird, all chemical) published in March 2019 has been on the Spiegel bestseller list since November 2019. Awards Grimme Online Award (2018) Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism (2018) German Web Video Award (2018) Medium Magazin Journalist of the Year (2018) Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award (2019) Federal Cross of Merit (2020) Heinz Oberhummer Award for Science Communication (2020) Grimme-Preis (2021) for journalistic contributions on COVID-19 Publications Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi (2019). Komisch, alles chemisch! (in German). Droemer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-426-27767-6. Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi (2021). Chemistry for breakfast: The amazing science of everyday life. Greystone Books. ISBN 978-1-77164-748-9. References External links "Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim — Chemikerin und YouTuberin". zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 9 November 2019. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim at IMDb maiLab's channel on YouTube The Secret Life Of Scientists's channel on YouTube. Discover the Mai Thi Nguyen Kim popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mai Thi Nguyen Kim books.