Eli Krasnoff standing on a mountain trail

Hi, I'm Eli.

I'm a sophomore at Stanford University studying Chemical Engineering.

Hoping to become a social entrepreneur in a technical field, I'm passionate about innovating in science and technology for the common good. I started my journey as an entrepreneur at 14 by filing a provisional patent for a novel frequency-based mosquito repelling device, and I've since been engaged in scientific research throughout high school. My projects encompass the topics of polymer physics, machine learning, tissue engineering, and targeted hydrogel therapies (in endodontics and oncology). I've presented my research through oral presentations at the American Physical Society and Materials Research Society, and I'm published in the Journal of Ethics in Science and Technological Innovation. I've also completed internships in the field of biotechnology, with the most recent at Congruent Ventures, compiling an investment thesis on the green polymer market and specific upstream precursors for bioplastics. I plan to major in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. In my free time, I blacksmith, I enjoy playing guitar, both performing in front of hundreds of people or campfire acoustic guitar, and I play golf, hopefully on the club team at Stanford.

Reach me at elikras@stanford.edu or on LinkedIn.

Scholarships & Distinctions

Eli Elsewhere

Choice Quotes

“Boundless curiosity penetrates all barriers to progress.”
Personal motto
“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“Society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in.”
William Moses Jr.
“Be curious, not judgemental.”
From Ted Lasso, attributed (incorrectly) to Walt Whitman
“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
Saying
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
Frederick Grinnell
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Lao Tzu