Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience - Alumni Industry Schools, prospective students and community Research Undergraduates Graduates International Year of Quantum Department of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme - Accelerator physics Astronomy and astrophysics Biological physics Climate physics Exoplanets and planetary physics Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics Fundamental particles and interactions Instrumentation Lasers and high energy density science Particle astrophysics & cosmology Photovoltaics and nanoscience Plasma physics Quantum information and computation Quantum materials Quantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department - Astrophysics Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Atomic and Laser Physics Condensed Matter Physics Particle Physics Professional and support services Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Professor Manjit Dosanjh: a profile Professor Manjit Dosanjh's pioneering work to apply physics to the medical domain is changing the field in cancer treatment; find out more about her here. 27 April 2023 Oxford to play key role in pioneering experiment at CERN 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. 31 October 2022 Professor Philip Burrows elected Chair of HL-LHC Collaboration Board Professor Philip Burrows has been elected Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board. 19 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 Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment. 2 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 Professor Philip Burrows elected IoP Member of Council Professor Philip Burrows has been elected a Member of the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (IoP). Burrows is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. 29 July 2021
Professor Manjit Dosanjh: a profile Professor Manjit Dosanjh's pioneering work to apply physics to the medical domain is changing the field in cancer treatment; find out more about her here. 27 April 2023
Oxford to play key role in pioneering experiment at CERN 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. 31 October 2022
Professor Philip Burrows elected Chair of HL-LHC Collaboration Board Professor Philip Burrows has been elected Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board. 19 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
Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment. 2 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
Professor Philip Burrows elected IoP Member of Council Professor Philip Burrows has been elected a Member of the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (IoP). Burrows is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. 29 July 2021
