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Professor Hannah Christensen

Professor Christensen recognised by IAMAS

Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) Early Career Scientist Medal for 2025.

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Register now for free specialist tuition for 14-18 year olds

Registration for the Department of Physics Comprehensive Oxford Mathematics and Physics Online School (COMPOS) 2025 programme is now open.

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Donation to help physics outreach project: COMPOS

The University of Oxford has received a £6.25 million gift to expand its outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and COMPOS is set to benefit.

Sonia Contera and Jon Bath

Physics staff championing ED&I

The Department of Physics led the ‘Outstanding ED&I Champion – Staff’ category in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences divisional Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2025.

Adam Lowe, Eimear Conroy and Shuaifeng Hu

Making an impact across the department

Eimear Conroy and Adam Lowe as well as Shuaifeng Hu were recognised in this year’s Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) divisional Impact Awards.

Dr Eimear Conroy

Schools outreach award for Dr Eimear Conroy

Very many congratulations to Dr Eimear Conroy, recipient of the early-career MPLS outreach award for her engagement work in bringing particle physics into UK schools.

Dr Moon-Sun Nam

Dr Moon-Sun Nam receives teaching award

Dr Moon-Sun Nam has been recognised in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Teaching Awards.

Insight into rare pulsar

New insights into rare pulsar

Physicists from the University of Oxford have been part of an international team who have uncovered new insights into the behaviour of a rare transitional millisecond pulsar.

An estimation of the orbit of 3I (red, dashed) relative to the orbit of the Sun (yellow, dotted) through the Milky Way.

Third ever detection of interstellar object

The discovery of 3I/ATLAS – an interstellar comet shooting through the Solar System – sent astronomers scrambling last week, excited for only their third chance to study a small body from another star.

In some M-point moiré materials, electrons lock into crisscrossing patterns — a sign of one-dimensional behaviour. In certain cases, they can also freeze into orthonormal valence bond dimers, revealing a deeper layer of quantum order.

A new class of moiré materials unlocks uncharted quantum behaviour

An international team has introduced a novel class of twistable quantum materials, opening up a broader landscape for quantum simulation and discovery.

Dr Sian Tedaldi

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Dr Sophia Vaughan

Dr Vaughan awarded RAS thesis prize

Dr Sophia Vaughan has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Michael Penston Thesis Prize following her DPhil at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics.