Joy completed her master’s degree in South Korea, focusing on molecular markers in Cannabis sativa. She served at the National Agrobiodiversity Center of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences (RDA), where she specialized in medicinal crop cultivation and phytochemical analysis using UPLC and HPLC systems. Currently, she is a Research Scientist I at the Institute of Cannabis Research at Colorado State University Pueblo.
Joy’s work includes maintaining a Manduca sexta insect model system to support controlled biological studies in hemp research, as well as conducting cannabinoid quantification and extraction optimization using LC-based analytical techniques.