Editing Ingrid Rambam (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Ingrid Rambam Young.png|thumb|316x316px|Ingrid Rambam in 1983 aged 20]]
Rambam was born in [[Slatina, Romania|Slatina]], [[Olt County]], on 7 March 1963. On 15 September 1974, she entered a secondary school in Slatina, where teachers described her as quiet and academically gifted. She showed an early interest in plant biology and was regarded by classmates as a nerdy, innocent-looking girl who avoided parties and spent much of her free time reading or working in the school laboratory. On 22 May 1979, she won a municipal science competition with an experiment concerning plant regeneration.

Rambam began studying biology at the [[University of Bucharest]] on 1 October 1981. She started working as a delivery driver on 12 June 1982 to support herself during her studies and remained in the position until 30 August 1986. On 1 October 1986, she enrolled at the [[Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism]], where she studied the design of laboratory buildings and controlled research spaces. On 17 November 1988, she conducted an unauthorized plant-grafting experiment on a laboratory animal and allowed it to die while continuing to record its reactions. She was formally reprimanded on 4 April 1990 after keeping another test animal restrained beyond the approved period.