 Joyce was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2001, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) and to the Institute of Medicine (2014).He has been a professor at The Scripps Research Institute until 2016 and served as Dean of the Faculty at Scripps from 2006 to 2011, during which time he was instrumental in founding a second campus in Jupiter, Florida.Joyce has served as the chair of the JASON advisory group, which he joined in 1996.