Phoenix Mo obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from the University of Nottingham. She is a chartered psychologist of the British Psychological Society, a chartered scientist of the UK Science Council, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Hong Kong Psychological Society. She is currently the Associate Professor of the School of Public Health and Primary Care and Director of the Center for Health Behaviours Research of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has published more than 180 papers from peer-reviewed journals.