Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professor Theresa Schoetz has received the POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers. This award is given annually by the Post Lithium Storage Cluster of Excellence (POLiS) to a female early or mid-career scientist researching electrode materials, electrolytes, interfaces, or integration and sustainable cell engineering. This year POLiS recognized Schoetz’s "outstanding record of scientific achievements related to the topics on new battery materials and technology concepts to improve energy storage, safety, and cost-effectiveness for stationary and mobile electrochemical storage."
Schoetz researches the development of electrochemical materials and interfaces for next-generation batteries and supercapacitors that can be integrated in modern electronics. She earned her B.Eng. from Brandenburgische Technische Universität (Hochschule Lausitz), Germany (2013), M.Sc. from Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany (2016), and Ph.D. University of Southampton, UK (2019). Before joining the ChBE Illinois faculty in 2023, Schoetz was a postdoc at the University of Southampton and a Research Associate at The City College of New York.