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 Professor Bortoletto appointed OBE Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics, has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to particle physics and to gender equality. 2 January 2024 Professor Shipsey awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, Head of Department, has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his leadership in experimental particle physics. 16 October 2023 Meet...Sophie Paszynska We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 September 2023 Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon A thermal imaging camera built by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics will form an integral part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, scheduled to launch in 2024. 21 August 2023 Celebrating Professor Roger Davies On 30 June 2023, more than 100 people gathered in the Martin Wood lecture theatre to celebrate the contributions, achievements and career of Professor Roger Davies. 17 July 2023 New instruments to improve understanding of universe A team at Oxford are leading an international consortium to develop the Extremely Large Telescope's first light spectroscopic facility instrument known as HARMONI. 29 June 2023 Major milestone in ATLAS tracker upgrade After more than 10 years of research and development, an upgraded tracker that is fundamental to the ATLAS experiment, is moving to production marking a major milestone for the collaboration. 16 March 2023 ATLAS Thesis Award for Dr Mironova Dr Maria Mironova was one of eight PhD students to be recognised with a 2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award. 1 March 2023 Oxford role in search for origins of Universe Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund. 17 October 2022 Making an impact The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards. 11 July 2022 Professor Ian Shipsey elected Fellow of the Royal Society Ian Shipsey, Henry Moseley Centenary Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of Department, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work in experimental particle physics. 10 May 2022 Meet...Daniel Hynds We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 April 2022 Load More
Professor Bortoletto appointed OBE Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics, has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to particle physics and to gender equality. 2 January 2024
Professor Shipsey awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, Head of Department, has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his leadership in experimental particle physics. 16 October 2023
Meet...Sophie Paszynska We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 September 2023
Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon A thermal imaging camera built by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics will form an integral part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, scheduled to launch in 2024. 21 August 2023
Celebrating Professor Roger Davies On 30 June 2023, more than 100 people gathered in the Martin Wood lecture theatre to celebrate the contributions, achievements and career of Professor Roger Davies. 17 July 2023
New instruments to improve understanding of universe A team at Oxford are leading an international consortium to develop the Extremely Large Telescope's first light spectroscopic facility instrument known as HARMONI. 29 June 2023
Major milestone in ATLAS tracker upgrade After more than 10 years of research and development, an upgraded tracker that is fundamental to the ATLAS experiment, is moving to production marking a major milestone for the collaboration. 16 March 2023
ATLAS Thesis Award for Dr Mironova Dr Maria Mironova was one of eight PhD students to be recognised with a 2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award. 1 March 2023
Oxford role in search for origins of Universe Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund. 17 October 2022
Making an impact The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards. 11 July 2022
Professor Ian Shipsey elected Fellow of the Royal Society Ian Shipsey, Henry Moseley Centenary Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of Department, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work in experimental particle physics. 10 May 2022
Meet...Daniel Hynds We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 April 2022