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An example of a next generation, high resolution and local climate model created by Oxford researchers.

Next-gen weather forecasting to measure human impact

National forecasting centres like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how human behaviour is aggravating major events like floods, heatwaves and storms.

Vice Chancellor with some of the team

Community project wins VC Award

A community engagement project supported by the Department of Physics was named joint winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Community Partnership Award 2024.

Simulation of the guiding of the high-energy laser pulse train (red) through a plasma channel (blue). The pulse train resonantly excites a large amplitude plasma wave that can be used to accelerate charged particles to GeV-scale energies

Advance in laser-driven accelerators

Researchers from the Department of Physics have taken a step closer to demonstrating a new generation of high-repetition-rate laser-driven particle accelerators; these compact accelerators could drive myriad applications.

The black hole pulls material from a companion star towards it, forming a disc that rotates around the black hole before falling into it.

First proof of black hole ‘plunging regions'

Einstein has been proved correct with a key prediction about black holes, an international team led by researchers from the Department of Physics at Oxford.

Professor Laura Herz

Professor Laura Herz elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Professor Laura Herz has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for her study of light-harvesting and energy-conversion pathways in emerging semiconducting materials.

Playing with light

Fuelling a passion for physics

The Department of Physics worked with Merton College to support education charity Physics Partners schools competition: What Lights up your Love of Physics?

Olivia Vashti Ayim

Meet...Olivia Vashti Ayim

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

Schmidt Fellows 2024 in the Department of Physics

New Schmidt AI in Science Fellows

The Department of Physics welcomes five of this year's 15-strong cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Shuqiu Wang

Dr Shuqiu Wang awarded Kurti Science Prize

Dr Shuqiu Wang has been awarded the Oxford Instruments Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for Europe 2024.

Michel Talagrand

Commentary: Abel Prize 2024 - Talagrand's physics connection

Michel Talagrand has been awarded the highest prize in mathematics, the Abel Prize; of particular note is that drivers of a major part of his work come from physics. Emeritus Professor David Sherrington explains.

Long-predicted quantum state confirmed

The Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group at the University of Oxford has made a significant discovery, identifying and visualising a long-predicted new phase of matter in high-temperature superconductors.

Professor Siddharth Parameswaran in front of a black chalk board

Commentary: Professor Parameswaran on the frontiers of quantum physics

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.