Rengin Isik received her BA in Psychology from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey; and her M.A. and Ed.M. degrees in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University, Teachers College in New York, USA. 

She has started her doctoral research at the research center of Adolescent Development, Utrecht University in 2016. Her research focuses on emerging adulthood and changes in parent-child relationship quality during the transition from late adolescence to emerging adulthood.