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Professor Laura Herz FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for her outstanding research on the physics of light interaction and energy conversion in semiconductors, including metal-halide perovskites, nanomaterials and molecules.

How can we better predict ‘extreme weather events’ in a world where these are no longer so exceptional? Dr Shruti Nath, from Oxford University’s Department of Physics, argues that AI-powered forecasting could be an invaluable tool

Professor Myles Allen explains how researchers at Oxford are combining climate information with operational weather forecasting systems to understand the changing risks of extreme weather.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Third-year physics student Esme Somerside Gregory wrote and directed a new play exploring the life of pioneering German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether.

Graduate students at the cutting edge of physics were able to share their work earlier this year at the 2026 Graduate Condensed Matter Physics Conference.

Professor Hannah Christensen has been recognised with a Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division Teaching Award 2026.

A planet that hid from astronomers for ten years has been found by a team including researchers from Oxford.

Both the Physics teaching laboratories team and the HARMONI team have been recognised with a Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Award for Excellence in Lab and Workshop Support.

Of the eight initiatives recognised in this year’s Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Impact Awards, four came from the Department of Physics.

Dr Kang Wang and Professor Marina Filip were awarded an NVIDIA Academic Grant to support research into the behaviour of excitons in complex semiconductors.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.