[4] Kuprov was born in Polevskoy in what was then the Soviet Union, and raised in Tarko-Sale, a small town near the Siberian Arctic Circle.

He completed his undergraduate studies in environmental chemistry at Novosibirsk State University in 2002, and moved to the UK in the same year.

In 2005, he received his DPhil degree in physical chemistry from Corpus Christi College, Oxford under the direction of Peter Hore.

His collaborative research deals with difficult problems in computational modelling of electromagnetic and spin processes.

As a theory and simulation specialist in different teams of researchers, Kuprov has co-authored papers on magnetic navigation of migratory birds,[13] spin dynamics in photosynthesis,[14] lanthanide contrast agents for MRI,[15] chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarisation of amino acids,[16] toroidal spectroscopy of atoms,[17] electron spin resonance problems in structural biology,[18] quantum optimal control theory,[19] and gravitation sensors using atom interferometers.