In a Marie Claire interview, 20-year-old Rahel, living in state care, talks about what motivated her to continue her education and the challenges she had faces in her everyday life. Rahel is pursuing her fifth semester in Chemical Engineering at BME. In addition, she assists the Hungarian Academy of Sciences research team in pharmaceutical research, and as an ambassador for the Women in Science Association, she is campaigning for a greater number of girls to pursue a scientific career.

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