Professor Joyce obtained her BSc and BEng degrees from the University of Western Australia. She obtained her PhD from the Australian National University and thereafter undertook a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. In 2013 she was appointed to a University Lectureship in Electronic Devices and Materials in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She joined St John's College as a Fellow in Engineering at the same time.
She teaches on electromagnetism, semiconductor physics, renewable energy technologies and other topics within the Engineering Tripos.