Sathiya has been working on Na-ion batteries since 2018. Before joining the CSE lab, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens and at the Collège de France in Paris, France; as a scientist at the Centre for Automotive Energy Materials at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials in Chennai, India; and as a visiting scientist at the Collège de France in Paris, France. She obtained her PhD at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute in Chennai, India.