Wladislaw Michailow

Wladislaw did his Bachelor studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and completed his Master studies at the Walter-Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich. He then moved to the United Kingdom, where he did his PhD studies in Physics. He has received a number of scholarships and awards, including the Rudolf Diesel medal of the German Institute of Inventions and the George and Lillian Schiff scholarship at the University of Cambridge. Wladislaw’s research work includes experiments on semiconductor devices exploiting both classical and quantum physics on the basis of layered materials, self-assembled quantum dots, and two-dimensional electron gases, in frequency regions from radio-frequency, over far-infrared/terahertz, and into the near-infrared and visible ranges. Currently, Wladislaw is a Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He is a member of a consortium of UK groups developing future high-speed terahertz communications within the EPSRC programme grant “TeraCom”. His team within the Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge works on the development of terahertz detectors, terahertz modulators, and terahertz optical technology.

Update: Since November 2025, Wladislaw has moved over to the Department of Physics at Swansea University, UK, where he is starting a new terahertz laboratory in the Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials. His contact email there is:
wladislaw.michailow (ät) swansea.ac.uk

Light-matter interaction, terahertz science and technology, low-temperature physics, quantum transport in magnetic fields
Low-dimensional electron systems, semiconductors, novel materials
Photoluminescence spectroscopy, surface acoustic waves

Read about our latest research here:

“One step closer to making terahertz technology usable in the real world”, Press release of the Department of Physics, 23/05/2022:
https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/one-step-closer-making-terahertz-technology-usable-real-world

“Delivering and focusing radiation using cylindrical tubes”, Blog post on the website of the Department of Physics, June 2023:
https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/delivering-and-focusing-radiation-using-cylindrical-tubes

“Cavendish Researchers achieve ultra-high modulation depths in terahertz modulators”, Press release of the Department of Physics, 04/08/2025:
https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/cavendish-researchers-achieve-ultra-high-modulation-depths-in-terahertz-modulators/

1997: Born in Regensburg, Germany

2012: A-levels at the Holbein Gymnasium in Augsburg, Germany

2015: Bachelor of Science at the University of Augsburg, Germany

2017: Master of Science at the Technical University of Munich, Germany

2017-2021: PhD studies in the Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

2021: Research Assistant, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

2022 – 2025: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

2021 – now: Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, UK

2021-2025: Junior Research Fellowship, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/meet-the-jrf-wladislaw-michailow-explains-his-fascination-for-terahertz-science-and-technology/)

2017-2021: Full scholarship “George and Lillian Schiff Studentship”, University of Cambridge

2017-2020: Full scholarship “Honorary Vice-Chancellor's Award” of the Cambridge Trust, University of Cambridge

2018: Award “Best graduate of the Technical University of Munich in the Master programme Physics in the year 2017”

2016-2017: Scholarship “Deutschlandstipendium” (German national scholarship)

2013-2015: Scholarship “Deutschlandstipendium” (German national scholarship)

2012-2013: Scholarship “Max-Weber-Programm Bayern” (Max-Weber-Programme Bavaria)

2012: Rudolf Diesel Medal of the Diesel-Kuratorium of the Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen e.V. (D.I.E.) and of the Holbein-Gymnasium in Augsburg for the scientific term paper in chemistry (http://schule.a-city.de/holbein-gymnasium/bilder/Abitur_2012/Abitur2012-l.JPG)

2012: One-year long royalty-free membership in the German Physical Society in honour of very good school achievements in physics

2012: Award DMV-Abiturpreis 2012, one-year long royalty-free membership in the Association of German Mathematicians in honour of outstanding results in the Abitur mathematics exam

2011-2012: Scholarship “Talent im Land – Bayern” (“Talent in the country – Bavaria”; https://www.km.bayern.de/allgemein/meldung/1239/talent-im-land-bayern-stipendiaten-sind-vorbilder-fuer-gelungene-integration.html)

2011-2012: Participation in the Programme Jugend Aktiv (“Youth is active”)

2024 - now: Lecturer at the European Annual International Traveling Summer School on Terahertz Sciences and Technology (ITSS-TSaT),
https://ttass.education/

2024 - now: Co-Chair of SPIE conference "Sensors and Communication Technologies in the 1 GHz to 10 THz Band", part of the annual SPIE Sensors + Imaging Symposium,
https://www.spie.org/sd105

2025 - now: Co-Lead of the Special Interest Group SIG1 in "High-frequency Electronics and Communication Systems" in the UK EPSRC NetworkPlus in Terahertz Systems,
https://thznetworkplus.org/special-interest-groups/high-frequency-electronics-and-communication-systems/