Anna Krylov
Encyclopedia
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
at the University of Southern California working in the area of computational quantum chemistry
Quantum chemistry
Quantum chemistry is a branch of chemistry whose primary focus is the application of quantum mechanics in physical models and experiments of chemical systems...
.
Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, Anna Krylov received her M.Sc. in Chemistry from Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...
and later her Ph.D from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working under the supervision of Professor Robert Benny Gerber.
Currently Anna Krylov leads a research group which is focused on theoretical modeling of open shell
Open shell
In the context of atomic orbitals, an open shell is a valence shell which is not completely filled with electrons or that has not given all of its valence electrons through chemical bonds with other atoms or molecules during a chemical reaction. Atoms generally reach a noble gas configuration in a...
molecules. 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
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
and the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
.
Anna Krylov's research has received worldwide recognition, in particular for her invention of the spin-flip method. Recently she received several prizes including the WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists) 2007 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
Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award
The Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award was established in 1951 by the Iota Sigma Pi honorary society for women in chemistry. The award is given for research achievement in chemistry or biochemistry to a woman not over forty years of age at the time of her nomination...
, which is given by Iota Sigma Pi
Iota Sigma Pi
Iota Sigma Pi is an elective US honor society for women in chemistry, first established in 1902. The organization presents several awards to women in chemistry.- Professional Awards :* Centennial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching...
National Honor Society
National Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
annually for outstanding research achievements to a woman chemist or biochemist not over 40 years of age.
Anna is also a Board member of Q-Chem
Q-Chem
Q-Chem is an ab initio computational chemistry software program. Q-Chem can perform a number of general quantum chemistry calculations, including Hartree-Fock, density functional theory , coupled cluster , configuration interaction and other advanced electronic structure methods...
Inc, one of the leading ab initio quantum chemistry program developers in the world.