After graduating in Biology from the University of Valencia, Isabel spent a year working at the Institute for Human Genetics of the University Hospital in Hamburg as a DAAD fellow. This led her to pursue two parallel PhDs in the field of human genetics in those two institutions. For her postdoctoral stage, she changed field and started working on developmental neuroscience, first at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, studying radial neuronal migration and neural fate specification, and later at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics of the University of Oxford, analyzing the role of dyslexia candidate genes in radial migration. From Oxford she moved to the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University, where she was recruited as Lecturer to start her own research group and to contribute to the teaching in the Neuroscience Division, being promoted to Senior Lecturer three years later. Since July 2023, Isabel is a CIDEGENT Researcher at the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine of the University of Valencia.