Joshua joined Thorn Lab as a student assistant. He is a Public Health practitioner, holds a bachelor's degree in Public Health and is currently enrolled at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences for his MPH.
He has helped in implementing some vaccination programmes to improve immunisation coverage and training of immunisation frontline health workers.

For the Coronavirus Structural Task Force, he carried out some vaccine research and wrote blogposts in fight against coronavirus. His interest in molecular biology has grown over time working with a bunch of scientists in the Task Force.

When he is not working, he is singing or reading.