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Ksenia Bravaya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Boston University. Her research focuses on challenging electronic structure phenomena in biomolecular systems and relevant materials, addressing topics like photoinduced processes, autoionizing electronic states, and spin interactions. Bravaya's work seeks to develop high-level electronic structure methods targeted at processes involving multiple electronic states, emphasizing chemistry of open-shell species and electronically excited metastable systems. She utilizes computational chemistry to examine mechanisms of cryptochromes, proteins implicated in magnetoreception and circadian clock regulation, analyzing their photoactivation and the potential biological roles of light-dependent magnetoreception in various organisms. Bravaya has also contributed to multiple grant projects aimed at integrating advanced simulations and theoretical approaches to enhance understanding in the fields of redox reactions and electronic dynamics. She is a member of the Boston University Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and has received the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for her contributions to quantum mechanics in chemistry. Ksenia Bravaya continues to make significant strides in the understanding of electronic structures and processes in complex biological and chemical systems.
Boston University • Boston, MA
Teaching and conducting research in the area of chemistry, focusing on electronic structure and computational methods.
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