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Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS, recently appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute (OQI), has also been named a member of the National Quantum Strategic Advisory Board.

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS has been appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute at Oxford University.

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

Ten new Fellows have joined the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship programme at the University of Oxford, two of whom will be joining the Department of Physics.

Professor Matt Jarvis has been shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award 2025.

A team from Oxford’s Department of Physics, POSTLIMS, secured second place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS, earning them a place in the finals in Barcelona in May.

Dr Robert J Ewart has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award; he is the seventh winner from the University of Oxford in recent years.

Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK.

On Saturday 15 March, particle physicists from the Department of Physics were tasked with sharing their love of fundamental physics with the wider public for the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology.

Scientists from Oxford University are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments.

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

Through a series of interactive, carefully designed events, the access and outreach team reached almost 1,000 young people and some 900 members of the public in March.