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The Department of Physics’ award-winning outreach work is often generously supported by our philanthropic donors.

Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at Oxford is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Alumni from Oxford's Department of Physics follow a wide variety of career paths; here, we hear from alumnus Dali Ma about where physics took him...

Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment.

It is with great sadness that the Department of Physics shares the passing of Professor Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics and a highly regarded and warmly respected colleague.

A team from Oxford’s Department of Physics, in collaboration with Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) at the University of Valencia, has demonstrated electrical control of quantum spins in molecular nanomagnets.

The Universities of Namibia and Oxford delivered a brand new online course over the summer: introduction to astronomy and astrotourism.

Professor Ard Louis speaks to Ursule Demael about the contributions of theoretical physics to understanding biological evolution and self-assembly.

Professor Henry Snaith, Binks Professor of Renewable Energy, is one of seven internationally leading scientists to be awarded the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 2022.

Dr Kirsty Duffy is one of eight Oxford University academics to have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme

In a milestone for high energy density physics, a new beamline at the European X-Ray Laser (XFEL), was officially opened yesterday, 31 August 2021.

Researchers led by Dr Alex Cameron from the University of Oxford and Professor Deanne Fisher from the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) have found evidence to suggest that star-making pollutes the cosmos.