Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesInternational Year of QuantumDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Professor Gianluca Gregori recognised by IOP Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize. 24 October 2022 Meet...Caroline Terquem We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022 Meet...Emily Archer We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022 Alumni donors visit national fusion lab Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in Oxfordshire. 23 June 2022 Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York. 20 June 2022 Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 10 May 2022 EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award. 21 March 2022 Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma 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 9 March 2022 Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022 Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators 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 9 November 2021 Laser fusion at the threshold of ignition The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US has reached the threshold of realising controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory 18 August 2021 Professor Tony Bell awarded Yodh Prize Emeritus Professor Tony Bell has been awarded this year’s Yodh Prize for his theoretical contributions that led to a breakthrough in understanding the acceleration of cosmic rays by amplified magnetic fields. 1 July 2021
Professor Gianluca Gregori recognised by IOP Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize. 24 October 2022
Meet...Caroline Terquem We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022
Meet...Emily Archer We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022
Alumni donors visit national fusion lab Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in Oxfordshire. 23 June 2022
Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York. 20 June 2022
Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 10 May 2022
EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award. 21 March 2022
Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma 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 9 March 2022
Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022
Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators 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 9 November 2021
Laser fusion at the threshold of ignition The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US has reached the threshold of realising controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory 18 August 2021
Professor Tony Bell awarded Yodh Prize Emeritus Professor Tony Bell has been awarded this year’s Yodh Prize for his theoretical contributions that led to a breakthrough in understanding the acceleration of cosmic rays by amplified magnetic fields. 1 July 2021
