Joe is a Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion (PPR). Joe joined Lancaster University in July 2023 as part of the University's Security and Protection Science initiative. Prior to that Joe held permanent positions at the University of Nottingham and the University of St Andrews and was a Marie Curie (MSCA-IF) fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), working on the two-year European Commission-funded project Strategic Cultures of Cyber Warfare (CYBERCULT). Previously Joe was Senior Lecturer in the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science (NZISCS) at the University of Waikato. My expertise is in the area of Cyber Conflict and Emerging Technologies.

Joe teaches courses on Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Studies, and International Security and works on an interdisciplinary research agenda on cyber security, terrorism, organised crime, maritime security, norm diffusion, conflict prevention, regional collective security, and non-proliferation.