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The Department of Physics’ award-winning outreach work is often generously supported by our philanthropic donors.

Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at Oxford is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Alumni from Oxford's Department of Physics follow a wide variety of career paths; here, we hear from alumnus Dali Ma about where physics took him...

Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment.

It is with great sadness that the Department of Physics shares the passing of Professor Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics and a highly regarded and warmly respected colleague.

The Universities of Namibia and Oxford delivered a brand new online course over the summer: introduction to astronomy and astrotourism.

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.

Our columnist takes an alternative look at day-to-day life in the Department of Physics and this month, she muses on the compulsion to dance...

Professor Ard Louis speaks to Ursule Demael about the contributions of theoretical physics to understanding biological evolution and self-assembly.

Professor Henry Snaith, Binks Professor of Renewable Energy, is one of seven internationally leading scientists to be awarded the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 2022.

We are looking for the most talented early-career theoretical physicists worldwide to join us here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics in Oxford.