Isabel is a freelance science writer and Health editor at The Munich Eye. She has an MPhil and a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in the UK. She began her research career as a developmental biologist but she gradually focused her research on cell biology. During her postoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council, she got involved in several science outreach projects and fell in love with science communication. Amongst other things, she co-founded Microscopes4Schools, a workshop on cells and microscopy for primary school children that now reaches thousands of people through an interactive website that she developed (www.microscopes4schools.co.uk). She is currently based in France where she works as a freelance science journalist and runs a science blog (www.scienceintheclouds.blogspot.com). Follow Isabel on twitter @Isabel_L_Torres