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Meet...Thomas Hird

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

Andrew Williams

Meet...Andrew Williams

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

Professor Henry Snaith

Professor Snaith awarded Louisville’s renewable energy prize

Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy.

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Oxford physicists to benefit from £6m UKRI programme to spur the UK’s quantum leap

A multi-institutional project involving a team from Oxford’s Department of Physics is one of 17 new projects to share in £6 million of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quantum technology funding, announced this week.

a photo of a group of young Black students standing in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford

EMPower Oxford opens opportunities

New collaborative access programme for Black students a great success

Fibre positioner

Supercharged telescope to investigate Milky Way

The latest addition to the William Herschel Telescope will be able to survey 1,000 stars per hour revealing how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.

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Physics on tour!

Researchers from the department took part in the first ever physics summer roadshow for local schools reaching over 1,000 young people

Secure cryptography with real-world devices is now a realistic possibility

Secure cryptography with real-world devices is now a realistic possibility

New research published in Nature explains how an international team of researchers have, for the first time, experimentally implemented a type of quantum cryptography considered to be the ‘ultimate’, ‘bug-proof’ means of communication.

Participants at the Physics: Lab to Life event

Physics: from the lab into your life

Members of the public were welcomed into the Department of Physics for behind-the-scenes lab tours of the research that impacts our lives.

Satellite image of smoke plumes over Kalimantan, Indonesia during the massive peat fires of October 2015

Understanding absorbing aerosol

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics have a new understanding of how the mysterious ‘absorbing aerosol’ can change the climate. The research, led by Andrew Williams and Professor Philip Stier, is published in today in Nature Climate Change.

The LZ central detector in the clean room at Sanford Lab after assembly, before beginning its journey underground

All systems go for dark matter detector LUX-ZEPLIN

The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.

Elliot Bentine and Thomas Hird

Making an impact

The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards.