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In a study published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the Quantum Magnetism group in the Department of Physics have developed an innovative approach to synthesise and study rare-earth magnetic materials.

The Department of Physics has been given the Athena Swan Gold award having held Athena Swan Silver since 2015. The Athena Swan Charter is a framework to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.

Dr Boon Kok Tan is a senior researcher in astrophysics of the Department of Physics. His ERC research project aims to advance ultra-sensitive instrumentation for microwave, millimetre (mm), sub-mm, and terahertz (THz) frequencies.

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers today announced the release of the Multimodal Universe – a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset.

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the European Geosciences Union Jean Dominique Cassini Medal, the EGU’s highest award for recognition of achievement in the planetary sciences.

Climate change could be halted within a generation if the energy companies selling fossil fuels were required to dispose responsibly of the waste CO2 they generate, the climate scientist who led the first work on Net Zero has said.

Professor Michael Johnston has been awarded the Max Born Medal and Prize 2025 for his pioneering research on nanoscale semiconductors and devices across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Professor Philip Burrows has been re-elected Chair of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board at the collaboration's annual meeting that took place in Genoa in October.

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The Department of Physics has secured funding to develop a new training programme designed to strengthen researchers’ skills and confidence in public engagement.

A project led by Professor Achillefs Kapanidis from the Department of Physics is one of six to share £2m funding from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI).

Professor Justin Wark has been awarded the American Physical Society’s George E Duvall Shock Compression Science Award 2025.