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Professor Laura Herz from Oxford’s Department of Physics has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award.

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

Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award.

Professor Henry Snaith, Binks Professor of Renewable Energy, is one of seven internationally leading scientists to be awarded the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 2022.

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

In June 2021, the Department of Physics received a significant donation from the Binks Trust to further solar energy research over the coming years; we speak to the chair of the Binks Trust, philanthropist Jo Elliot to find out more.

The Department of Physics has received a significant philanthropic donation from the Binks Trust, which will be used to enhance its solar energy research over the coming years.

Dr Suhas Mahesh is one of 28 early-career scientists awarded a Schmidt Science Fellowship joining a global lifelong community of 84 fellows working at the intersection of disciplines to advance science for the public benefit.

The latest findings of a team of researchers at Oxford's Department of Physics add further weight to perovskites earning their status as wonder-materials in the world of semiconductors.