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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.

Peter Drmota has been awarded a University of Oxford EPSRC Doctoral Prize for his work in ion trap computing.

A multi-institutional team will explore a new method for creating fusion power they hope could eventually be scaled to provide safe, clean, and abundant energy.

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

Dr Alex Picksley from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.