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Professor David Lucas, a leading researcher in experimental quantum computing, has been appointed Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford.

Professor Justin Wark has been awarded the American Physical Society’s George E Duvall Shock Compression Science Award 2025.

Professor Simon Hooker has been selected to become an American Physical Society Fellow for his pioneering contributions to the development of plasma-based, high-power optical waveguides and their application to laser-driven plasma accelerators.

Professor Peter Norreys helped to mark 30 years since the opening of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) London office by delivering the keynote speech at a celebratory event.

Professor Tony Bell FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for his seminal contributions to theoretical developments of cosmic ray acceleration and origins.

The Department of Physics is partnering with the University of Nottingham's ARTlab to host artist-in-resident Matthew Woodham as he works on an original art piece inspired by the Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network (AION) project.

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The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is to lead a new national quantum computing hub to develop the technologies needed for the UK to play a key role in the quantum computing market – estimated to be worth $1.3 trillion by 2035.

Dr Raghavendra Srinivas has been awarded Optica’s Theodor W Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics for his work to create and manipulate nonclassical states of trapped ions.

Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Europhysics Prize 2024 for his pioneering studies of photo-induced emergent phases of quantum materials.

An international team of scientists, led by the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening up a new frontier in laboratory astrophysics.

Researchers from the Department of Physics have taken a step closer to demonstrating a new generation of high-repetition-rate laser-driven particle accelerators; these compact accelerators could drive myriad applications.