Supporting the brightest and best postgraduates
The Oxford Physics Endowment for Graduates (OXPEG) provides scholarships and flexible financial support to graduate students. OXPEG enables the department to attract the best possible candidates from around the world, and foster the keenest minds, regardless of their financial circumstances or backgrounds. Graduate students contribute enormously to the work of our department, formulating new ideas and finding novel answers to pressing technical challenges. We are very grateful to donors who have enabled Oxford physicists to play a fundamental role in advancing our understanding of the universe in areas such as astrophysics, particle physics and theoretical physics.
If you would like to contribute to OXPEG, please donate online or contact mpls@dae.ox.ac.uk.
Meet our OXPEG scholars
OXPEG provides essential funding for our exceptional graduate students – meet some of them here.
JOHN PEARCE, DPhil candidate, quantum materials
'Over my PhD, I have so far featured as a co-author and first author, respectively, in two works recently published in Communications Physics and Physical Review B focused on probing the magnetic behaviours of novel Kitaev spin liquid candidates. These were among the first single-crystal studies published for this class of material. If Kitaev materials are well understood, they may have potential applications in developing quantum computing technology.
'OXPEG has allowed me to continue my PhD without financial worry, and for this I am immensely grateful. This PhD has been an absolute blast and I couldn’t imagine doing it without their help. A lot of progress has been made in the past two years with our high magnetic field research both in Oxford and abroad in LNCMI Toulouse and HFML Nijmegen. Here’s hoping that this momentum carries forward in the years to come!'
