She completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the CUNY Graduate School during 2011 and joined BCC as a full-time faculty. Dr. Soosairaj has been heavily involved in sustainable and renewable energy research and curriculum development. She has participated in NSF funded study abroad of capacity building in Costa Rica and South Africa to install solar panels. Dr. Therese also participated in the Salzburg Global Seminar ISP 54, Salzburg, Austria, to help create innovative teaching techniques to promote global learning in the classroom. Her other research interests are bio-diesel synthesis from waste oils and synthesis and analysis of materials for lithium ion batteries. She has recently published a paper in Nature Communication. Dr. Soosairaj is also actively involved in the CUNY Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education (NICHE).