Yosi Kratish

Inventor & Founder

Highlights:

Research Assistant Professor at NU

2023 Querrey Entrepreneurial Fellow

Led the R&D for a start-up that licensed his polyester recycling technology

Invented the Nylon recycling technology

As a Research Professor and Querrey Entrepreneurial Fellow at Northwestern, Dr. Kratish pioneers next-generation recycling processes to combat the global plastics pollution crisis. He possesses over a decade of polymer chemistry expertise licensing technologies to startups, including leading R&D for a company commercializing his patented polyester recycling methods.

The latest innovations of Prof. Yosi Kratish enable groundbreaking chemical conversion of nylons, polyesters, and polyolefins back into virgin monomers for circular remanufacturing. Several pending patents underpin NylaNova’s breakthrough nylon recycling technology.