Eike F. Eifler studied psychology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands where she received her Master's degree in 2016. In July 2017 she started working as a research assistant in the Department of Differential Psychology, Personality and Psychological Assessment at Bielefeld University. While working on the DFG-funded interdisciplinary longitudinal study "Genetic and social causes of life chances. A genetically informative, longitudinal study of the life course and individual development (TWINLIFE)", she is also enrolled as a Ph.D. student and plans to finish her dissertation in 2020.