Isabel has a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Biomedical Research from the University of Valencia (Spain). Isabel pursued her PhD at the A. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences in the University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio Campus, Finland) under the supervision of Adjunct Prof. Alejandra Sierra Lopez, where she assessed brain damage using magnetic resonance imaging and advanced histological methods and analysis in murine models of traumatic brain injury and epilepsy. During her PhD, Isabel gained experience on light microscopy using widefield and confocal microscopes, as well as image analysis expertise using ImageJ and inhouse MATLAB scripts for quantitative histological quantification.

Isabel moved to the Babraham Institute in 2023 to work as an Imaging Technician at the Imaging Facility, where she oversees the tissue sectioning equipment system, and the ultrahigh content multiplex MACSima imaging platform, as well as supporting people with the microscopes within the Facility.