Theresa Schoetz received her PhD in Electrochemistry from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. She then joined the Centre for Electronics Frontiers (CEF) at the University of Southampton as a Postdoctoral Fellow and became the theme lead for Energy Technologies, starting her independent research on next-generation batteries beyond lithium-ion. Theresa received her Master of Science and Bachelor of Engineering in Electrochemistry and Chemical Engineering, respectively, in Germany. During her period of study, she completed an internship at the University of Salento in Italy and the Hokkaido University in Japan to research energy storage materials for aluminium batteries.

Her current research interests involve battery and capacitor materials and designs minimizing the trade-offs between performance, sustainability and safety for future energy storage technologies, including conductive polymers, ionic liquids and ionogels, nature-inspired and organic composite materials.