About Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
Chemist and science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim was born in 1987. She is well-known from the WDR science show “Quarks” and produces the multi-award-winning YouTube channel “maiLab”, which has millions of subscribers. She has won many prestigious prizes for her work and most recently received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2020. Her first book, “Funny How Everything is Chemistry!”, was published in 2019 and immediately became a best seller. She followed this up in 2021 with “The Lowest Common Reality”.