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Professor Shivaji Sondhi has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the Wykeham Professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University.

What is quantum physics? And what exactly does a quantum physicist do every day? We speak to Dr Sridevi Kuriyattil to find out more.

Breakthrough Listen is partnering with ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and the University of Manchester, to deploy a new all-sky monitor at the Westerbork Observatory in the Netherlands.

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.

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

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.

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.