Life and career
The daughter of a Finland, Finnish scientist father and an Austrian civil servant mother, Rauskala was born in Helsinki, where she lived until the age of five. She studied international economics at the University of Innsbruck and completed a doctorate in 2006. Rauskala then joined the civil service in the Ministry of Economy (Austria), Ministry of Economy and later the science ministry, working under ministers Johannes Hahn, Beatrix Karl and . She taught at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences from 2011 until she was appointed to a highly ranked position in the education ministry in 2015. She is deputy chairperson of the Austrian Science Fund board of supervisors. On 3 June 2019 she was sworn in as Minister for Education, Science and Research in the interim government of Brigitte Bierlein. She was described as popular and "extremely dynamic". In 2018, she married a woman and published that fact in an interview briefly after her inauguration. According to her, there were never any negative reactions.References
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