Inge Wissink is an associate professor (with promotion rights, IUS promovendi; graduated as a -social- psychologist at University of Groningen). After her PhD (University of Amsterdam) and postdoc (Utrecht University) research on adolescents in different ethnic groups, she started working as an Assistant Professor and started to conduct research within the forensic youth care domain, for instance research on young people with MID (for the Committee-Samson and Committee-De Winter) and on instruments for the youth care domain. 

In the last ten years she has mainly been involved in strongly practice-driven research into online deviant behavior of young people (such as internet addiction, cyberbullying, sexting, hacking, online threats; cybercrime) and the factors that explain this behavior (personal, family, friends, school and social factors). To this end, she works together with schools in special education, the Ministry of Justice and Security, the Child Protection Board, the HALT Foundation and the National Police. As a (co-)promoter, she is also involved in projects aimed at strengthening the help offered by care institutions to children and to this end she works with Koraal and Partners for Youth (together with PhD Jessica Vervoort-Schel and PhD Tessel Sterenborg). 

Inge wissink has been the project leader of the research project Let's talk about sexting! (see https://www.uu.nl/en/research/clinical-child-and-family-studies/lets-talk-about-sexting) and received an incentive grant of Utrecht University for the PhD-project ‘Young cyberspace cowboys and traditional juvenile street hustlers: New kid in town or just an expansion of criminal territory to cyberspace (see https://www.uu.nl/en/research/clinical-child-and-family-studies/young-cyberspace-cowboys-and-traditional-juvenile-street-hustlers) of PhD Susan Pelgröm. In addition, she lead, in cooperation with students and other researchers, various projects aimed at digital literacy in education (in collaboration with the Police), the online and offline approach of young people for ’fast money' (in collaboration with RIEC-MN and Bureau RVS) and the digital parenting of children in the upper years of primary education (in collaboration with the Municipality of Utrecht). In 2025, she received an NWO-M grant for the PhD-project 'Taking the deep dive: Understanding and addressing cyberhate, that PhD Jet ter Braak started in 2026.