Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy is a Reader in Ultrafast Physics at Lancaster University. He did his PhD in Physics at University of Exeter (2013) and then worked as a postdoc and later as a junior sub-group leader at Radboud University, Nijmegen. In 2019 he joined Lancaster University to develop and lead an independent research programme on THz phenomena in magnetically ordered materials, supported by ERC Starting grant. Throughout his career, Rostislav has pioneered THz spectroscopy of ultrafast spin dynamics in a broad class of magnets ranging from metallic spintronic heterostructures to insulating transitional metal oxides.