Isabel Morales-Muñoz is an Assistant Professor in Psychology based at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Her PhD was completed in 2014 at the Complutense University of Madrid. After that, she joined the University of Helsinki (Finland) as a postdoctoral fellow, and subsequently in 2016, she joined the National Institute for Health and Welfare, in Helsinki, as a postdoctoral fellow. In April 2018, she was awarded the Academy of Finland postdoctoral research fellow, to investigate sleep development in early childhood and the links between sleep and neurodevelopmental and mental health problems in children. In June 2022, she joined the School of Psychology as Assistant Professor, after spending 4 years as an honorary research fellow at the Institute for Mental Health, at the University of Birmingham. Her main area of research is to investigate risk factors for youth mental health, with a special focus on investigating the role of sleep problems in the development of mental health problems.