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Anna Krylov is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC), where she has been a faculty member since 1998. She currently holds the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and has occupied visiting professorships at institutions including DESY in Hamburg, Mainz University in Germany, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Krylov is a prominent theoretical and computational quantum chemist, with a focus on open-shell and electronically excited species, including metastable states.
Education:
- M.Sc., Moscow State University (1990, with honors)
- Ph.D., Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1996, summa cum laude) under Benny Gerber
- Postdoctoral training with Martin Head-Gordon at University of California, Berkeley (1996-1998)
Her research involves developing black-box methods to describe multi-configurational wave functions within single-reference formalisms like coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion approaches. She also creates tools for spectroscopy modeling in non-linear and high-energy regimes. Her work investigates radicals and excited species in combustion, solar energy, bioimaging, and quantum information science.
Krylov has implemented her theoretical models into practical software, serving as President of Q-Chem Inc., which develops a leading ab initio quantum chemistry software package. She is a Fellow of multiple prestigious societies, including the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and AAAS, and has received awards such as the Dirac Medal (WATOC), Bessel Research Award (Humboldt), and the Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics.
Scientific Awards and Honors:
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Inaugural WiSE Architects of Enduring Change Award (USC)
- Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics (APS)
- Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics (Simons Foundation)
- Mildred Dresselhaus Award (DESY and Hamburg Univ.)
- Mainz Guestprofessorship (Mainz University, Germany)
- Hanna Reisler Mentoring Award (WiSE, USC)
- Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award (USC)
- Elected Member, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- Fellow, American Chemical Society
- INSIGHT Into Diversity Inspiring Women in STEM Award
- Melon Mentoring Award (USC)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry (American Chemical Society)
- Bessel Research Award (Humboldt Foundation, Germany)
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award (Iota Sigma Pi National Honor Society)
- Dirac Medal (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Award (Sloan Foundation)
- CAREER Award (National Science Foundation)
Krylov also serves on the editorial boards of Physical Chemistry-Chemical Physics and Wires Computational Molecular Science. She advocates for gender equality in STEM through her maintained directory 'Women in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Material Science, and Biochemistry' (iopenshell.usc.edu/wtc) and as a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance.
