Dr Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim has a PhD in chemistry and is a science journalist.
She presents the knowledge programme Quarks on WDR and produces the maiLab YouTube channel, which has received several honours including the Grimme Online Award in 2018.
In the same year, she won the Georg von Holtzbrinck Preis for science journalism, then in 2019 she was awarded the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Preis and in 2020, the Goldene Kamera and German Federal Cross of Merit.