Isabel is a Lecturer for the European Studies BA Programme. After completing the BA herself, and two subsequent MA degrees in Eastern European Studies and Comparative Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, she is now working for the Faculty of Humanities.

Isabel's core specialisation concerns Soviet and post-Soviet culture, evidenced most prominently in her MA thesis entitled ''Apolitical Metamorphosis? A Study of Political Identity Construction in Soviet and Post-Soviet Subcultural Communities." Her research explored political identity construction, through primary interviews with contemporary Estonian "underground" musicians.

Furthermore, Isabel has recently expanded her background in Area Studies to also looking at social identity construction. This concerns mainly the application of philosophical concepts to her own empirical analysis in her project in contemporary Estonia (mentioned above) and in a more recent project looking at protest identity during the BLM movement in the UK.