Alexandra Starr received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Bielefeld University in 2017 and continued her studies in the Master's degree program the same year. Currently, she is working on her Master thesis whose aim is to investigate the influence of stress factors on educational achievement in children and adolescents. The thesis is going to be finished in summer 2019. 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.