Parisa is a research-intensive Post-Doctoral Associate at the Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection (AIMI), specialising in the field of microbiology. She was awarded her PhD for research on the molecular mechanisms of evolution of pathogenicity in marine bacteria from the University of New South Wales. She has since joined the Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection (AIMI) in University of Technology Sydney. Parisa’s research focuses on development of diagnostic tools and preventive measures for catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Her work encompasses both management of a multi-site longitudinal observation study on CAUTIs in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as building a catheter biofilm model to test novel prevention and treatment measures.