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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.

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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

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics, working alongside international collaborators, have identified a crystalline solid which satisfies the requirements to host an exotic axionic electrodynamic field.

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.

An international team of researchers has recently discovered that a subtle magnetic and electric hybrid response that is observed in some magnetic insulators can be strongly enhanced by application of pressure.

Dr Hariom Jani has been awarded the Emerging Investigator Medal and Prize 2021 by the Institute of Physics Singapore.

Professor J C Séamus Davis has been awarded 2023 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, one of the most prestigious awards in world science.

An international team of researchers led by Professor JC Séamus Davis, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity