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Dr Kirsty Duffy is one of eight Oxford University academics to have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme

In a milestone for high energy density physics, a new beamline at the European X-Ray Laser (XFEL), was officially opened yesterday, 31 August 2021.

Researchers led by Dr Alex Cameron from the University of Oxford and Professor Deanne Fisher from the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) have found evidence to suggest that star-making pollutes the cosmos.

The Department of Physics is delighted to confirm the appointment of Professor Shivaji Sondhi to the University’s Wykeham Professorship of Physics, a Leverhulme International Professorship, and the Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US has reached the threshold of realising controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory

Currently vice-president, Professor Lesley Gray will take up the presidency of the Royal Meteorological Society for two years from October 2022

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

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

Dr Alexandra Ramadan has been awarded the Outstanding ED&I Champion – Researcher award by the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences division in their annual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion awards.

Professor Philip Burrows has been elected a Member of the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (IoP). Burrows is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science.

Dr Kevin Olsen, UKSA Aurora Fellow, is working on data analysis for the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter; here he comments on the latest finding from the TGO and what they mean for life on Mars.