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Nico Marquardt (born May 24, 1994 in Potsdam) is a German politician, non-executive director and consultant. He became internationally known with his research work “The Killer Asteroid 99942 Apophis”. ==Life== Nico Marquardt was born in Potsdam, Germany as the son of Oberstleutnant Harald Broh and nurse Apolonia Marquardt and attended the Humboldt High School in Potsdam.〔(''Biography of Nico Marquardt'' (retrieved 27. October 2015) )〕 In April 2008, at the age of 13, he took part in the competition Jugend forscht with his research paper „The Killer Asteroid 99942 Apophis“, in which he calculated the probability for the asteroid Apophis to collide with a geosynchronous satellite and the consequences of this event to the likelihood of an Earth-collision. On the day of the award Marquardt was interviewed by the biggest German newspaper Bild which published an article stating a 100-times higher probability of an Earth-collision in the year 2036 than Marquardt calculated. Afterwards, nearly all international press reported the news with false data caused by the review from Bild even though Marquardt denied. Marquardt used this global attention and ever since became one of the globally most influential Twitter-users in the category science.〔(Nico Marquardt on Twitter (retrieved 27. October 2015) )〕 Since January 2013 Marquardt acts as the ''Global Advisor for Social Media'' at Mars One and CEO of the consultant firm ''Rabbit''.〔(Global Advisor Social Media Mars One (retrieved 27. October 2015) )〕 As of August 2014 Marquardt has been elected as non-executive director of the energy-company EWP.〔(Non-executive director energy company EWP (retrieved 27. October 2015) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nico Marquardt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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