Zsófia Szalay

chemistry student ELTE Eötvös Collegium - Bolyai College, Budapest

She graduated from the Szent István Gimnázium in 2002; presently she is a fourth-year student majoring in chemistry at the Department of Sciences of ELTE University and a member of Eötvös College and Bolyai College. In 2002, she received a gold medal at the International Chemistry Students' Olympics. Her field of research is NMR spectroscopy. In June 2004 she delivered a joint lecture with her tutor János Rohonczy at the National Conference of Chemists on the methods of determining the parameters of solid NMR spectrums. In the school year of 2004-2005 she took part in the National Students' Science Conference - she came first in her department, and first at the national event (her paper: Application of Genetic Algorithms in the Estimation of the Parameters of NMR Spectrums).