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Dr Alex Picksley from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.

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.

At the world's largest laser facility, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) ‘breakeven’ has been obtained for the first time meaning that the amount of energy released by fusion products exceeded the energy used to initiate the thermonuclear reactions.

The John Adams Institute, part of the Department of Physics, is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support the participation of UK institutions in CERN's AWAKE experiment.

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize.

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

Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.

An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters

Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.

Oxford University spin-out, Quantum Dice, has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Business Start-up Award 2021.

A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in