Isabel Bäurle performed her PhD work under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Laux at the University of Freiburg studying plant stem cells. Thereafter, she worked as a postdoctoral Fellow in the Group of Prof. Caroline Dean at the John Innes Centre in Norwich (UK). Since September 2010 she is head of the Plant Epigenetics Research Group at the University of Potsdam, where she was appointed as a junior professor in 2013. In 2015, Isabel was selected for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Her present research focuses on the long-term adaptation of plants to stressful environments and how this is regulated by epigenetic and chromatin-regulatory processes. In particular, her group focuses on the question how plants store information on a past stress exposure in order to be better prepared for a future stress incident. To study these questions, her group employs genetic, genomic and molecular approaches.