Jo Emily Handelsman (born March 19, 1959) is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin–Madison.

She remained at Wisconsin until 2009, and then took a position at the Yale University Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 2010.

[10] She has published books and held workshops on scientific teaching, for which she is recognized nationally.

One of Handelsman's seminal studies found that the gender of a name on a science resume affected a professor's inclination to hire, mentor, and pay applicants for a lab position.

[11] She was co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute[12][13] and was the first president of the Rosalind Franklin Society.