Alex Kosyakov is the Co-Founder and CEO of Natrion, a battery technology startup based out of Champaign, IL and Binghamton, NY. Kosyakov studied Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of the Sottos Group at Illinois’ Beckman Institute and assisted research primarily concentrated on self-healing fiber-reinforced polymer composites. Kosyakov went on to work at the City College of New York (CCNY) Energy Institute on polymer-ceramic composite solid-state electrolyte materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries. Natrion was started in 2018 to commercialize intellectual property developed by Kosyakov and collaborators at CCNY. The company has since raised over $3 million from prominent investors like Mark Cuban, has been selected for over $1.5 million in contracts from the US Department of Defense, and is rapidly commercializing with support from industry giants like LG Energy Solution.
