Dr Parkin is an early-mid career researcher experienced in both wet-lab and clinical research. She completed her PhD at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in 2019, conducting wet-lab research using post-mortem tissue from individuals with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Following her PhD, Dr Parkin then worked as Research Officer with the Take CARe Program at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, and as a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research (IISBR), University of California (UC) Irvine and at the UC San Diego Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence. These roles have involved coordination of randomized controlled trials and annual registry studies and supervision of students. In addition, Dr Parkin has also leveraged her academic training in wet-lab science to analyse saliva, blood and CSF samples of participants with psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr Parkin currently hold a position as Research Fellow and Project Manager at Phoenix Australia, through the University of Melbourne, and a position as Research Officer at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.