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Anna Krylov is the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC). She works in the area of theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. Krylov has been at the chemistry department at USC since 1998 and she has leads the iOpenShall laboratory at USC, which was launched in 2018 and is dedicated to theoretical studies of electronic structure and spectroscopy 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.

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). Krylov is an elected member of the International Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Quantum Molecular Science and an elected foreign member of the Academia Europaea. She is also a Board Member of WATOC.