Izzy is an Associate Professor and Department Head of Molecular Medicine, UNSW, and a UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK). She was awarded her PhD in 2011 at the University of Auckland for the early work applying localisation microscopy (STORM) to visualise the cardiac ryanodine receptor. Following two postdoctoral positions in the Universities of Queensland and Exeter, Izzy has led the Signalling Nanodomains Lab in Leeds, and more recently in Sheffield and Sydney. Over the past nine years, Izzy and her team have specialised in correlative microscopies and some of the more recent super-resolution approaches such as expansion microscopy to study the intracellular calcium signalling machinery in excitable cells. As a part of her UKRI fellowship, Izzy’s team in Sheffield have been developing and refining the tools, probes and analysis approaches that advance the uptake and validation of expansion microscopy. Izzy is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and works as an Associate Editor for The Royal Society’s Open Biology journal to champion sustainable academic publishing models. In 2023, she was named as one of New Zealand’s “40 under 40” as a ‘disruptor and innovator’ by the University of Auckland.