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Dr Alex Picksley, a former DPhil student in Oxford’s Department of Physics and St John’s College (2017–2021), has been awarded the 2025 Simon van der Meer Early Career Award in Novel Accelerators.

Professor Peter Norreys has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to fundamental studies of high energy density plasmas using high power petawatt-class lasers.

The University of Oxford's brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies had its official launch last week.

QFX builds on world-leading trapped ion quantum computing research at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and was founded by Associate Professor Joe Goodwin alongside several researchers from his group.

Professor Ard Louis has been awarded the Institute of Physics Sam Edwards Medal and Prize for pioneering the development of novel mathematical and numerical models that have contributed to our understanding of soft matter and biological physics.

Professor Julia Yeomans OBE FRS from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize.

Professor Alexander Lvovsky has been named a 2025 American Physical Society Fellow for pioneering contributions to the technology of preparation, manipulation, characterisation, and storage of quantum states of light.

Researchers use circularly polarised terahertz pulses to reversibly switch ferroaxial domains, revealing a new route to stable, light-driven data storage technologies.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced its preliminary selection of payloads for its future Mars exploration mission and the results include an Oxford Physics-led instrument named BEBOP.

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky.

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Oxford physicists have developed an AI framework that allows quantum laboratories to run and adapt experiments autonomously.