[1] Her doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Sir Anthony Cheetham, used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magic angle spinning (MAS) to study rare-earth pyrochlores.

[2] Following Grey's graduate studies, she held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Nijmegen.

[3] In 2009, she became the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

[6] Grey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011[7] and awarded the Günther Laukien Prize in 2013[8] followed by the Davy Medal in 2014 for "further pioneering applications of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance to materials of relevance to energy and the environment.

"[7] She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to science.