Skip to main content
Home
Department Of Physics text logo
  • Research
    • Our research
    • Our research groups
    • Our research in action
    • Research funding support
    • Summer internships for undergraduates
  • Study
    • Undergraduates
    • Postgraduates
  • Engage
    • For alumni
    • For business
    • For schools
    • For the public
Menu

Latest news and comment

Professor Shivaji Sondhi

Professor Sondhi elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Professor Shivaji Sondhi has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the Wykeham Professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University.
20 May 2025
Dr Sridevi Kuriyattil

A day in the life of a quantum physicist

What is quantum physics? And what exactly does a quantum physicist do every day? We speak to Dr Sridevi Kuriyattil to find out more.
15 May 2025
Members of the partnership standing around the phased array feed (PAF).

New Breakthrough Listen partnership to monitor the skies

Breakthrough Listen is partnering with ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and the University of Manchester, to deploy a new all-sky monitor at the Westerbork Observatory in the Netherlands.
14 May 2025
Laser table

Professor Walmsley joins government’s Quantum Strategic Advisory Board

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS, recently appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute (OQI), has also been named a member of the National Quantum Strategic Advisory Board.
14 May 2025
Professor Ian Walmsley

Professor Ian Walmsley to lead Oxford Quantum Institute

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS has been appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute at Oxford University.
9 May 2025
Dr Jacob Blackmore

Meet...Jacob Blackmore

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 May 2025
Professor Matt Jarvis

Professor Jarvis shortlisted for VC Award

Professor Matt Jarvis has been shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award 2025.
1 May 2025
Denys Wilkinson building

New Schmidt AI in Science Fellows 25

Ten new Fellows have joined the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship programme at the University of Oxford, two of whom will be joining the Department of Physics.
1 May 2025
Six people standing in a room

Oxford undergrads secure second place at PLANCKS prelims 25

A team from Oxford’s Department of Physics, POSTLIMS, secured second place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS, earning them a place in the finals in Barcelona in May.
30 April 2025
Dr Robert Ewart

EPS recognition for Dr Robert Ewart

Dr Robert J Ewart has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award; he is the seventh winner from the University of Oxford in recent years.
22 April 2025
Dr Jacob Blackmore

Dr Blackmore awarded Quantum Technology Fellowship

Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK.
14 April 2025
Using plastic bricks to demonstrate up and down quarks

Particle physics for the public

On Saturday 15 March, particle physicists from the Department of Physics were tasked with sharing their love of fundamental physics with the wider public for the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology.
8 April 2025
  • Load More

Footer Menu

  • Contact us
  • Giving to the Dept of Physics
  • Work with us
  • Media

User account menu

  • Log in

Follow us

FIND US

Clarendon Laboratory,

Parks Road,

Oxford,

OX1 3PU

CONTACT US

Tel: +44(0)1865272200

University of Oxfrod logo Department Of Physics text logo
IOP Juno Champion logo Athena Swan Silver Award logo

© University of Oxford - Department of Physics

Cookies | Privacy policy | Accessibility statement

Built by: Versantus

  • Home
  • Research
  • Study
  • Engage
  • Our people
  • News & Comment
  • Events
  • Our facilities & services
  • About us
  • Current students
  • Staff intranet