at Media Convention Berlin 2019 Nguyen-Kim started the YouTube channel
The Secret Life Of Scientists in 2015. In 2016, 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. 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. Her book
Chemistry for Breakfast (, ), published in March 2019, has been on the
Spiegel bestseller list since November 2019. == Awards ==