Xenia Stein is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology. As her main interest is gifted education, she is a member of the team of the Hector Children's Academies within the Hector Institute for Educational Research and Psychology. In this context she has great opportunities for developing an intervention to foster the mathematical competencies of gifted primary schoolers. In this context she is conducting research in how a self-paced digital learning environment can help these children develop their skills. 

She is also a member of LEAD.