Anna Krylov Born in Donetsk, Ukraine (May 6, 1967).

Professor Krylov’s research is focused on theoretical modeling of open shell and electronically excited species. She develops robust black-box methods to describe complicated multi-configurational wave functions in single-reference formalisms, such as coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion approaches. She developed the spin-flip approach, which extends coupled-cluster and density functional methods to diradicals, triradicals, and bond-breaking. Krylov also develops many-body theories for describing metastable electronic states (resonances) and tools for spectroscopy modeling (including non-linear optical properties). Using the tools of computational chemistry, and in collaboration with experimental laboratories, Krylov investigates the role that radicals and electronically excited species play in combustion, gas- and condensed-phase chemistry, solar energy, bioimaging, and ionization-induced processes in biology.

Professor Krylov's research has been recognized by several awards including the Dirac medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Theoretical Chemistry Award from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, the Mildred Dresselhaus Award (DESY and Hamburg Univ.), and the Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics (APS). She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Krylov is an elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and an elected foreign member of the Academia Europaea. She is also a Board Member of WATOC.