Isabell K. Adler is a science education researcher at the University of Teacher Education Bern, Switzerland. Isabell holds a PhD in Biology Education and has conducted empirical research on the assessment and fostering of kindergarten children’s ideas about evolution. In her postdoctoral phase, her research focuses on learners’ conceptions of evolution and on how intuitive reasoning patterns are used in evolution and broader science learning contexts, with a particular emphasis on primary students and teachers. She also investigates metaconceptual interventions aimed at supporting the regulation of intuitive theories and has a developing research interest in plant awareness.

Alongside her research, Isabell is actively involved in teaching and teacher education. She is a lecturer in Nature–Human–Society (an integrated primary education subject comparable to science and social studies) for primary education. In addition, she works as an educational guide at the Natural History Museum in Zurich, where she engages school classes and families in learning about dinosaurs.