Anna Krylov

Anna Krylov is the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She received her M.Sc. in Chemistry from Moscow State University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996. After completing postdoctoral research as a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley from 1996 to 1998, she joined USC Dornsife as an Assistant Professor in 1998, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, and to Professor in 2008. Throughout her career, she has served as a Visiting Professor at Heidelberg University in Spring 2012, the University of Colorado JILA from June to September 2011, the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2008, and the California Institute of Technology from 2005 to 2006.

Krylov directs the iOpenShell research group, where she develops theoretical methods and state-of-the-art computational codes for electronically excited and open-shell species. Her innovations include the spin-flip approach, detailed in the seminal publication 'Equation-of-motion spin-flip coupled-cluster model with single and double excitations: Theory and applications' (Journal of Chemical Physics, 2004), and advancements in treating electronic resonances, as in 'Extending Quantum Chemistry of Bound States to Electronic Resonances' (Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2017). These tools are applied to bioimaging, plasma chemistry, solar energy conversion, quantum information science, and spectroscopy modeling in collaboration with experimentalists. With over 32,000 citations, her work has significantly impacted theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. Krylov has earned prestigious honors including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2025), the Barry Prize (2023), the George Gamow Award (2024), the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics (2020), the ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry (2011), the Dirac Medal (2006), APS Fellowship (2011), AAAS Fellowship (2012), and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2012). She holds editorial positions with Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics Letters, and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, serves on the boards of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists and Q-Chem, Inc., where she is President, and is a member of Academia Europaea and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Professional Email: krylov@usc.edu