Amelie Nikstat studied psychology at Bielefeld University, where she received her Bachelor's degree in 2014 and her Master's degree in 2017. Since 2015, she has been working as a research assistant in the Department of Differential Psychology, Personality and Psychological Assessment at Bielefeld University in 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 (www.twinlife.de)".