Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

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Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (2017)

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (married Leiendecker ; born August 7, 1987 in Heppenheim ) is a German science journalist , TV presenter , chemist , author , web video producer and since June 2020 a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society .

Life

Nguyen-Kim, whose parents come from Vietnam , attended the Bergstrasse high school in Hemsbach . After graduating from high school , she studied chemistry from 2006 to 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2012 she worked as a PhD student at the RWTH Aachen , the Harvard University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research and was in 2017 at the University of Potsdam with a thesis on Physical hydrogels based on polyurethane doctorate . Nguyen-Kim is married to Matthias Leiendecker, who has a doctorate in chemistry, and has a daughter born in 2020.

Science communication

Nguyen-Kim with Tom Buhrow at the Media Convention Berlin 2019

In 2015, Nguyen-Kim started the YouTube channel The Secret Life of Scientists to question stereotypes about (natural) scientists and nerds and to convey scientific topics to a young audience. In addition, in October 2016 their YouTube channel Schönschlau went online, which is produced by funk , a joint service of ARD and ZDF for teenagers and young adults. At times she also hosted the channel on the toilet and instructional videos for the subjects chemistry and mathematics in for radio- produced format musstewissen . Your channel Clever was in 2018 maiLab renamed and had the end of April 2020 nearly 900,000 subscribers. maiLab is produced by Südwestrundfunk for funk.

Nguyen-Kim is a moderator in the WiD project Die Debatte and, along with Harald Lesch and Philip Häusser, belongs to the Terra X Lesch & Co team . Alternating with Ralph Caspers (also with Ranga Yogeshwar until he left in November 2018), she has been moderating the program Quarks since the beginning of May 2018 .

Her book Komisch, alles chemisch! Published in March 2019 . made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list in November 2019 .

At the beginning of April 2020 MaiLab reached more than 4 million views within four days with a video on the corona pandemic and was at times number 1 of the YouTube trends, it is the most successful video on the YouTube channel. On the same subject, she made a daily commentary in April . In mid-April, she analyzed the communication of well-known virologists in another video. This video also got into the YouTube trends and reached almost 2 million views within a week (as of April 27, 2020). Nguyen-Kim has since appeared on various other media formats, including television talk shows. At the end of May 2020, in a conversation with the German Press Agency, she called for more source and media competence and criticized conspiracy theories on the corona pandemic . She also sees deficits in general education in the natural sciences and in academic work. She is also a support activist for Scientists for Future .

Publications

  • Funny, it's all chemical! Cell phones, coffee, emotions - how chemistry can really explain everything. Droemer Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-27767-6 .

Awards

Others

On April 17, 2020, she was the first interview guest in the format 5 quick questions to the podcast Mixed Hack .

On July 23, 2020, the four-hour podcast Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, will science save the world? of the series “ All said? " currently.

Web links

Commons : Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b We asked Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim. Science in Dialogue blog , October 25, 2017, accessed on October 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Mai Thi Leiendecker: Physical hydrogels based on polyurethane. Dissertation, Mathematical and Natural Science Faculty of the University of Potsdam, Potsdam 2017 (PDF; 8 MB).
  3. ↑ Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim. Web host about.me , accessed February 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim: Friends of the Sun, I was elected to the Senate of the Max Planck Society! In: Twitter. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, June 23, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Overview of the composition of the SENATE of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science July 1, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Frank Joung: Ep. 17: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (VNM): nerd, salami theory & “Schlitzis” . Conversation with Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, podcast Halbe Katoffl , May 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim: Chemist and YouTuberin , Terra X , March 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Anand Agarwala: YOU MAKE A CLICK. In: The time. June 5, 2019, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Valerie Zaslawski: The new Rezo is going through the roof. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 16, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020 .
  10. ^ The Secret Life Of Scientists . Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim's YouTube channel, accessed April 4, 2017.
  11. ↑ PhD student Mai-Thi Nguyen-Kim at "funk" . Press release DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials from November 22, 2016, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  12. ↑ Johannes Böhme: “The longer it took us for the research, the better it goes down” Interview in Brand eins (undated), accessed on April 20, 2020
  13. ↑ pretty smart . Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim's YouTube channel.
  14. ↑ SWR with three formats at funk . Südwestrundfunk from September 29, 2016.
  15. ↑ Daland Segler: "funk" from ARD and ZDF: incorporation of the YouTube generation . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of October 4, 2016.
  16. ↑ Lukas Menzel: Talk show for girls: The funk format Auf Klo in focus ( Memento from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). On broadmark.de from October 6, 2016.
  17. ↑ No more YouTube! Why May ends ? On the toilet on YouTube , March 9, 2017.
  18. ↑ "need to know": funk starts school support format on YouTube . "Funk" , press release of March 10, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  19. ↑ Functions explained simply I had to know math. Retrieved on May 7, 2020 .
  20. ↑ The end of beautifully clever . funk , April 4, 2018.
  21. ↑ maiLab's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats. Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English).
  22. ↑ a b “Virologist Comparison”: New video from maiLab. In: funk. April 19, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Terra X Lesch & Co: With Harald Lesch, Philip Häusser and Mai-Thi Nguyen-Kim . Terra X on January 27, 2016, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  24. ↑ Ranga Yogeshwar passes on moderation to Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim and Ralph Caspers . WDR from November 6, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  25. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Nguyen-Kim becomes the presenter of the WDR magazine “Quarks”. In: DWDL.de . April 6, 2018, accessed April 9, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Funny, everything is chemical! In: book report. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Trend video from science Youtuber maiLab: “Corona is just getting started!” Retrieved on April 4, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Scientist calculates a bitter Corona forecast for Germany - and adds it to ARD . merkur.de from April 8, 2020, accessed on April 10, 2020.
  29. ^ Youtuberin Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim warns of conspiracy theorists: "Totally crazy " www.rnd.de, May 26, 2020
  30. ↑ Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim: Through the ceiling! Accessed August 30, 2020 (German).
  31. ↑ Mai-Thi Nguyen-Kim ( Memento from April 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: falling-walls.com , 2012.
  32. ↑ Christoph Behrens: Falling Walls Lab: How to keep cow dung with sauerkraut . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 12, 2012. Retrieved on February 14, 2019.
  33. ↑ 11th Science Slam Aachen . science-slam.com , 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  34. ↑ 3rd Science Slam Extraschicht Bochum . science-slam.com , 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  35. ↑ Making science cool | Mai-Thi Nguyen-Kim | TEDxBerlin on YouTube , October 1, 2014, accessed November 16, 2019.
  36. ↑ Benjamin Quiring: Bullshit-Slam Hollow phrases without logic . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger of February 27, 2015. Retrieved on February 14, 2019.
  37. ↑ Climate change is good for us! Mai-Thi Nguyen-Kim wins the Bullshit Slam Cologne . In: WikiStage of March 2015, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  38. ↑ Science on the Net: Awards for the best web videos . In: Science in Dialog . Press release dated November 1, 2016. Accessed February 14, 2019.
  39. ↑ Trust me I'm a Scientist - 1st place Scitainment 2016 . In: Blog fast forward science of November 24, 2016, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  40. ↑ Prize Winner - Grimme Online Award. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  41. ↑ Information - Grimme Online Award. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  42. ↑ The Georg von Holtzbrinck Prizes for Science Journalism 2018 have been awarded. Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) from October 25, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Prize Winner - Fast Forward Science 2018. Accessed February 14, 2019 .
  44. ↑ Winner Webvideopreis 2018. On webvideopreis.de, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
  45. ↑ "maiLab" wins web video award 2018. "funk" , press release of November 30, 2018, accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  46. ↑ The journalists of the year 2018. Accessed on February 14, 2019 .
  47. ↑ "Exceptional Talent": WDR presenter Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim receives Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize , WDR on Presseportal.de , May 13th 2019.
  48. ↑ Tanja Beeskow: The nominees in the “Best of Information” category , Golden Camera , September 9, 2019.
  49. ↑ Heinz Oberhummer Award 2020 - Science Busters. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  50. ↑ Oberhummer Award to science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  51. ↑ https://www.tz.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga-coronavirus-spotify-lösungen-hack-mai-thi-nguyen-kim-geisterspiele-fussball-fans-zr-13667758.html
  52. ↑ Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, will science save the world?
personal data
SURNAME Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiendecker, Mai Thi (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, science journalist, television presenter, author and web video producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Heppenheim