[1] She is a professor and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University.
[3] After secondary school at Narrabundah College in Canberra, Parish studied physics at Australian National University, graduating with first class honours in 2001.
She went to Pembroke College, Cambridge in England for doctoral study in physics, completing her Ph.D. in 2005.
Her dissertation, Magnetoresistance of inhomogeneous semiconductors, and, ultracold atomic Fermi gases, was supervised by Peter Littlewood.
[6] Parish was a 2012 recipient of the James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics, given "for her pioneering work in the theory of cold fermionic matter and magnetotransport in highly disordered media".