Anna Krylov

Who is Anna Krylov?

Anna Krylov is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California working in the area of theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, Anna Krylov received her M.Sc. in Chemistry from Moscow State University and later her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working under the supervision of Professor Robert Benny Gerber. Her Ph.D. research at the Fritz Haber Center was focused on molecular dynamics in rare gas clusters and matrices. Upon completing her Ph.D. in 1996, she joined the group of Prof. Martin Head-Gordon at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral research associate, where she first became involved with electronic structure method development. In 1998, she joined Department of Chemistry at USC.

Currently, Prof. Krylov leads a research group focused on theoretical modeling of open shell and electronically excited species. She is the head of the Center for Computational Studies of Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Open-Shell and Electronically Excited Species, iOpenShell, supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Southern California.