diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4eefa8dd0759eefa660a8d77b0ee76e68ba496b7..c1a8b2db0d90deb60ce985a24f65d27d3b65ef55 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,3 +33,9 @@ matplotlib = "^3.1.3"
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 120
 target_version = ['py36']
+
+[tool.isort]
+profile='black'
+line_length = 120
+known_first_party = ['polystar','tests','research','tools','scripts']
+skip = ['.eggs','.git','.hg','.mypy_cache','.nox','.pants.d','.tox','.venv','_build','buck-out','build','dist','node_modules','venv','__init__.py']