Professor Ilya Kuprov DPhil, FRSC
Associate Professor of Chemical Physics

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Ilya Kuprov is an Associate Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Southampton. His areas of expertise are magnetic processes, quantum theory, and machine learning.
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Ilya is a magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging specialist with a particular focus on large-scale computer simulation of magnetic processes in chemical and biological systems; this includes quantum optimal control, and a programme of research, recently funded by Leverhulme Trust, into the relevant machine learning methods.
Ilya’s research group (http://spindynamics.org) are currently global leaders in large-scale simulations of magnetic resonance systems: they invented linear complexity scaling methods for time-domain spin dynamics. All previous simulation tools had exponential complexity scaling.
The applications work in Ilya’s group includes photosynthetic reaction systems, lanthanide contrast agents, and artificial intelligence methods. They recently reported the first fully quantum mechanical simulation of a protein-size spin system – something that was previously believed to be fundamentally impossible due to computational complexity of the task.
DPhil, Chemistry, University of Oxford, 2005
Past appointments:
2005-2010 Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford
2007-2009 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Durham
2009-2011 EPSRC Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford