Isabelle Anguelovski is an ICREA professor at my institute, ICTA, in Barcelona. Isabelle has a PhD in urban planning from M.I.T. and is recipient of a European Research Council starting grant to study how the greening of cities may cause gentrification. Isabelle is a young (and needless to say, very successful) academic at the beginning of her tenure, young enough to remember and sympathise with the grievances of PhD and post - doc researchers. We discussed about the writing and publishing process, their nice and not so nice moments...