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Ina is an Associate Professor at Clinical Child and Family studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has made a significant contribution to research on youth risk behavior in interaction with the social context, applied to both substance addiction as well as behavioral addictions (social media use). She has made a significant contribution to research on parenting and the prevention of adolescent substance use and problematic online behaviour; including intervention development and translation, implementation, and evaluation. Currently she is PI of the evaluation of a community-based intervention targeting substance use and mental health in the Netherlands. She highly values the translation of her work to practice, and has a history of disseminating her work to utilize the knowledge gained in the most comprehensive way possible.