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Professor Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics has today received the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Gold Medal for Geophysics for his outstanding work in advancing the understanding and prediction of climate and weather.

The MeerKAT Team has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Group Achievement Award for Astronomy.

Oxford Ionics, a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics, has announced investment of £30 million in Series A funding from some of the world’s leading quantum and tech investors.

The Department of Physics is delighted to announce that applications are being welcomed for the Novo Nordisk Foundation-Oxford Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.

In November 2021, a team of graduate students from Oxford teamed up with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to turn the ideas of secondary school children into real experiments for launch to the International Space Station. 

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant, named BlackHolistic, of 14 million Euro to a team of British, Dutch, Finnish and Namibian astronomers to make colour movies of black holes.

At the world's largest laser facility, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) ‘breakeven’ has been obtained for the first time meaning that the amount of energy released by fusion products exceeded the energy used to initiate the thermonuclear reactions.

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

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth.

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

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

An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the Universities of Hertfordshire, Cambridge and Oxford, has today reported the discovery of the earliest galaxies ever confirmed in our Universe thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.