Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Meet...Nicolas Shiaelis We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 March 2022 Obituary: Professor David Andrews It is with great sadness that we announce that emeritus colleague and former Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Professor David Andrews died on 1 March 2022. 8 March 2022 New home for nanoscience Over the last few months, four groups from the Department of Physics have moved to join the newly founded Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery; we take a tour and find out more 7 March 2022 Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment. 2 March 2022 Warm winds witnessed in neutron star first Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time, blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star while it consumes matter from a nearby star. 2 March 2022 Péter Juhász to present research in Parliament Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022. 24 February 2022 Using physics to transform our understanding of life Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’. 17 February 2022 Zooniverse in schools Citizen science in the classroom 16 February 2022 Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022 Icy moons simulated in Antarctica Scientists from the University of Oxford are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the solar system’s icy moons. 9 February 2022 Meet...Alan Barr We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 1 February 2022 Meet...Sally Lord We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 1 February 2022 Load More
Meet...Nicolas Shiaelis We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 March 2022
Obituary: Professor David Andrews It is with great sadness that we announce that emeritus colleague and former Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Professor David Andrews died on 1 March 2022. 8 March 2022
New home for nanoscience Over the last few months, four groups from the Department of Physics have moved to join the newly founded Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery; we take a tour and find out more 7 March 2022
Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment. 2 March 2022
Warm winds witnessed in neutron star first Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time, blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star while it consumes matter from a nearby star. 2 March 2022
Péter Juhász to present research in Parliament Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022. 24 February 2022
Using physics to transform our understanding of life Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’. 17 February 2022
Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022
Icy moons simulated in Antarctica Scientists from the University of Oxford are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the solar system’s icy moons. 9 February 2022
Meet...Alan Barr We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 1 February 2022
Meet...Sally Lord We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 1 February 2022