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Professor Siddharth Parameswaran from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded a much sought-after European Research Council Consolidator Grant; he shares his plans for his future research.

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is delighted to be part of the brand new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Superconductivity: Enabling Transformative Technologies.

Researchers from Oxford University’s Department of Physics have made a breakthrough in creating and designing magnetic whirls in membranes that can be seamlessly integrated with silicon.

Researchers have discovered a new class of emergent magnetic monopoles in the quantum material known as hematite – the main component of rust. These elusive emergent particles could pave the way to greener and more powerful computing technologies.

Professor Amalia Coldea has been made a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society for her pioneering studies of the electronic structure and the nematic and superconducting orders of iron-based superconductors.

Professor Radu Coldea has been made a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society for his significant contributions to the understanding of quantum magnetism and quantum phase transitions using both neutron and resonant x-ray scattering techniques.

DPhil student Jack Harrison has been awarded the European Materials Research Society’s Young Researcher Award (E-MRS YRA) for his PhD research presented at the 2023 Fall edition of the E-MRS conference.

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

Professor Paolo Radaelli has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ and the Italian Physical Society’s Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize.

A team of physicists from Oxford’s Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics has received a Frontiers of Science Award at the First International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing, China.

Dr Yves Kwan has been named runner up in the Sam Edwards Thesis Prize awarded by the Institute of Physics’ Theory of Condensed Matter Group.

Oxford researchers validate key features of a novel unconventional superconductor