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.