22 Facts About Anna Krylov

Anna Igorevna Krylov is the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California.

Professor Anna Krylov leads the iOpenShell lab, a research group focused on theoretical modeling of open-shell and electronically excited species.

Anna Krylov 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.

Anna Krylov developed the spin-flip approach, which extends coupled-cluster and density functional methods to biradicals, triradicals, and bond-breaking.

Anna Krylov has contributed to the development of molecular orbital concepts in the framework of many-body wave functions and to the extension of molecular orbital theory to the domain of non-linear optical properties and meta-stable electronic states.

Anna Krylov is known for her development of efficient algorithms and software for quantum chemistry computations.

Anna Krylov is one of the developers of the open-source libtensor library for many-body calculations and the Q-Chem electronic structure package.

Anna Krylov has authored over 300 publications and has delivered more than 300 invited lectures, including the 2012 Lowdin Lecture at Uppsala University Sweden, the 2013 Coulson Lecture at the University of Georgia, the 2018 Davison Lecture at the University of North Texas, and the 2023 Hans Hellmann Lecture at the Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany.

Anna Krylov has developed educational materials aiming to increase quantum chemistry literacy among chemists.

Anna Krylov has received worldwide recognition, in particular for her invention of the spin-flip method.

Anna Krylov received the 2007 WATOC Dirac Medal for her "outstanding research on new methods in electronic structure theory for the description of bond-breaking, in particular the spin-flip method", and the Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, given by Iota Sigma Pi National Honor Society for outstanding research achievements to a woman chemist or biochemist under 40 years of age.

Anna Krylov is the recipient of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for developing robust electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species and creative use of ab initio theory to understand the chemistry of biomolecules, reaction intermediates, and photoinduced processes; and the recipient of the 2012 Theoretical Chemistry Award from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.

In 2017, Anna Krylov was recognized with the Mildred Dresselhaus Award from the Center for Ultrafast Imaging at DESY in Hamburg, Germany.

Anna Krylov is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Anna Krylov has served as a guest editor of special issues of J Phys.

Anna Krylov has organized numerous symposia and is a board member of WATOC and the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics.

Anna Krylov is the president of Q-Chem Inc and a developer of Q-Chem, one of the world's leading ab initio quantum chemistry programs.

Anna Krylov is active in the promotion of gender equality in STEM fields, especially in theoretical chemistry.

Anna Krylov created and maintains the web directory Women in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Material Science, and Biochemistry, which currently lists more than 400 scientists holding tenure and tenure track academic positions, or equivalent positions in industry, national laboratories, and other leading research establishments.

Anna Krylov has delivered several talks on gender equality in STEM including a lecture at the international symposium in Uppsala, Sweden.

Anna Krylov is a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance and a member of its academic leadership committee.

Anna Krylov's works have been translated into Polish, Estonian, French, and Russian.