Dr. Mikhailova is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University (USA). She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her research concerns Attosecond science, high-­field physics, high-­power lasers, relativistic laser‐plasma interaction, synchrotron­‐type intense x‐ray radiation from solids, Ultrafast and nonlinear optics, Quantum optics.