Alexandra Starr started studying Psychology in the Bachelor's degree programme at Bielefeld University in 2014. Currently, she is working on her Bachelor thesis whose aim is to investigate the influence of genetics on school performance in children of different age. The thesis is going to be finished in summer 2017. Since 2016, she has been working for the DFG funded interdisciplinary longitudinal study "Genetic and social causes of life chances" (TwinLife) as student research assistant.