Bishop completed a Bachelor of Science degree at Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD titled Continuum models for intergranular films in silicon nitride and comparison to atomistic simulations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under guidance of W. Craig Carter as thesis advisor.
[2] She is part of the MacDairmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology research project Towards Zero Waste - Reconfigurable Systems.
[4] Bishop co-convenes an annual symposium Grain Boundaries, Interfaces, and Surfaces: Fundamental Structure-Property-Performance Relationships.
[5] Bishop leads the Materials Cluster @ UC, an interdisciplinary research centre at Canterbury, working across the Colleges of Engineering and Science.
[7] Bishop was the lead investigator on a 2020 Marsden grant titled Are interface transitions the key to controlling ferroelectric aging and fatigue?, in collaboration with two professors at Purdue University.