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Dr Raghavendra Srinivas has been awarded Optica’s Theodor W Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics for his work to create and manipulate nonclassical states of trapped ions.

Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Europhysics Prize 2024 for his pioneering studies of photo-induced emergent phases of quantum materials.

An international team of scientists, led by the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening up a new frontier in laboratory astrophysics.

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.

Dr Toby Adkins has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award; he is the sixth winner from the University of Oxford in the last ten years.

The Department of Physics’ mentoring programme, aimed particularly at early career researchers, provides both mentors and mentees alike with a range of opportunities and positively benefits all those involved.

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

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

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.

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.

Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023.

Professor Peter Norreys has been awarded the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award.