Isabelle Charmantier gained a PhD in history of science from the University of Sheffield in 2008, which was followed by a post-doctoral position at the University of Exeter (2009–2013), working on a Wellcome Trust funded project on Carl Linnaeus’s manuscripts. Having retrained as an archivist, she was employed by the Linnean Society to catalogue Linnaeus’s manuscripts (2013–2015). After 18 months as Collections Manager at the Freshwater Biological Association (Cumbria), Isabelle is now Deputy Collections Manager at the Linnean Society of London.