Jo has a PhD in neuroscience from Imperial College, UK. In 2005 she joined the BMC series journals as an Assistant Editor, handling manuscripts through the peer-review process. In 2006‒2007 Jo worked as a Senior Editor for The Lancet Neurology, before rejoining BMC, and in 2010 became Publisher for the BMC series.

She then took on the role of Editorial Training Manager, overseeing both internal and external editor training and resourcing, and has now progressed to Training Manager for research integrity for Springer Nature.