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The Department of Physics is sorry to announce the death of Patrick Baird. Patrick first came to the Departmento of Physics – or the Clarendon Laboratory, as it would have been then – in 1970 as a graduate student under the supervision of Professor Derek

Professor Moritz Riede has been appointed Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC) in recognition of his contributions to promoting science as a global public good.

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

Researchers at the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford have found solutions to two major challenges with laser-plasma accelerators.

Professor Nynke Dekker has been appointed to the Professorship of Biophysics in the Department of Physics with effect from 1 January 2024.

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; he explains how the grant will help to transform laboratory astrophysics into a tool to investigate processes that cannot be easily captured by current theory and simulations.

The first ever Youth Quantum Summit (YQS) took place at the University of Oxford on 4 November.

Since the 1960s, the Department of Physics has had the privilege of having its own in-house specialist photofabrication facility. The facility is now set to be retired; here we reflect on some 60 years of specialist expertise and custom outputs.

Breakthrough Listen announce findings from the most sensitive search to date for ‘technosignatures’ – signs of intelligent life – beyond the Milky Way.

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.

Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics.

Professor Fabrizio Caola has been awarded a sought-after ERC Consolidator Grant; he talks about his quest to develop extremely sophisticated theoretical predictions to match the exquisite precision of the LHC data…