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Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit.

Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’.

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Sam Edwards Medal and Prize 2021 in recognition of her personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profession.

Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021.

Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021.

Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

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

The Department of Physics is delighted to confirm the appointment of Professor Shivaji Sondhi to the University’s Wykeham Professorship of Physics, a Leverhulme International Professorship, and the Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an unconventional telescope buried under the South Pole, began full operations 10 years ago on 13 May 2011. Since then, IceCube has been watching the cosmos and collecting data continuously for a decade.

Emeritus Professor Frank Close OBE has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his extraordinarily effective work in explaining profound concepts in physics at all levels of society including in parliament and to the general public.