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Professor Laura Herz from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize.

Professor Stephen Blundell from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize.

Professor Ian Shipsey FRS

Professor Simon Hooker has been selected to become an American Physical Society Fellow for his pioneering contributions to the development of plasma-based, high-power optical waveguides and their application to laser-driven plasma accelerators.

Results released by the Department of Physics’ Comprehensive Oxford Mathematics and Physics Online School (COMPOS) show more than 90% of GCSE and A-level students completing the programme improved their ability and performance.

Secondary school students taking part in the Big Data: ATLAS project have had their results published in the European Physical Journal Plus.

Professor Peter Norreys helped to mark 30 years since the opening of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) London office by delivering the keynote speech at a celebratory event.

Research led by Dr Shuxiang Cao introduces a new methodology that can enhance the efficiency of characterising quantum systems which could greatly impact the ability to scale quantum computers.

DPhil student Jonathan Classen-Howes was awarded the Early Career Researcher Poster Prize at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group Meeting organised by IOP.

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

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division’s Liquid Matter Prize 2024.

A new stream in the summer school asked students to explore the impact of human activities on climate change