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The Living Optics team standing together outside their new offices in Milton Park

New offices for Department of Physics spin-out

Having completed its second series A funding round at the end of 2022, Living Optics, a spin-out from the Department of Physics has just established new offices.
15 February 2023
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New AI virus diagnostic test

Scientists from the Department of Physics have developed a world-first diagnostic test, powered by artificial intelligence, that can identify known respiratory viruses within five minutes from just one nasal or throat swab.
6 February 2023
Professor Shivaji Sondhi

Meet...Shivaji Sondhi

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. Here we meet Professor Shivaji Sondhi, Wykeham Professor of Physics
2 February 2023
Dr Jake Taylor in apple orchard

Meet...Jake Taylor

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. Here, we meet postdoc Jake Taylor.
2 February 2023
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A journey Into the Cosmos

On Saturday 21 January, nearly 1,000 curious visitors came to the Department of Physics to take a trip into the cosmos.
1 February 2023
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Clean energy innovation at Oxford

In 2008, Professor Gregg devised an induction motor system to power a self-built wind turbine; today, the patented technology has been awarded funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Innovate UK so it can help NGOs operating in challenging geographies.
24 January 2023
Clockwise from top left: Sneha Malde, Gavin Dalton, Paolo Radaelli, Aris Karastergiou and Matt Jarvis

Excellence in research supervision

Five academics in the Department of Physics have been recognised in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division’s inaugural Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision.
18 January 2023
Professor Tim Palmer

Professor Tim Palmer recognised by RAS

Professor Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics has today received the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Gold Medal for Geophysics for his outstanding work in advancing the understanding and prediction of climate and weather.
13 January 2023
Just some of the 64 antennae that make up MeerKAT in South Africa

RAS recognition for MeerKAT

The MeerKAT Team has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Group Achievement Award for Astronomy.
13 January 2023
Oxford Ionics co-founders, Dr Tom Harty, left, and Dr Chris Ballance, right

Investment funding for Physics spin-out Oxford Ionics

Oxford Ionics, a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics, has announced investment of £30 million in Series A funding from some of the world’s leading quantum and tech investors.
10 January 2023
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Novo Nordisk Foundation-Oxford fellowship opportunity

The Department of Physics is delighted to announce that applications are being welcomed for the Novo Nordisk Foundation-Oxford Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.
4 January 2023
Oxford experiment in space

Oxford students successfully send an experiment into space

In November 2021, a team of graduate students from Oxford teamed up with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to turn the ideas of secondary school children into real experiments for launch to the International Space Station. 
20 December 2022
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