Vitaly Mikhailov was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia in 1973. He received an MSc in Optoelectronics and Optical Physics at the St. Petersburg Electro-Technical University in 1996. During his studies he worked in the Semiconductor Quantum Electronics Laboratory at the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. During the summer of 1995, he was with the Optical Networks Group as a summer student (Jul- Dec 1995). A year later, he became a Royal Society summer student (Jun - Sept 1996), and later on joined the same group again as a research assistant (Sept 1996 - 1997). He carried out his PhD research at the Optical Networks Group on the use of the optical fibre recirculating loop techniques for the study of high-speed WDM transmission systems and related devices. He received his PhD in 2004 and was appointed to a RC UK Academic Fellowship in Optical Communications in March 2005. He is the recipient of a number of awards incuding an IEEE LEOS Graduate Fellowship Award in 2000, an Institute of Physics Quantum Electronics and Photonics Thesis prize in 2005, an Edmund Davis University Postgraduate Trust Scholarship (University of London Central Research Fund) and a UCL Graduate School Research Scholarship.

Research areas of interest include:

• Multiwavelength recirculating loop techniques
• Modulation formats for high-speed transmission
• Semiconductor device characterisation
• Free-space optical techniques

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