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Professor JC Séamus Davis has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Physicists at Oxford have discovered a new electronic phase of quantum matter relating to a quantum Griffiths phase where the typical quantum mechanical correspondence between time and space breaks down.

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

Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award.

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.

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

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

In June 2021, the Department of Physics received a significant donation from the Binks Trust to further solar energy research over the coming years; we speak to the chair of the Binks Trust, philanthropist Jo Elliot to find out more.

Professor JC Séamus Davis has discovered that an elusive state of quantum matter is in fact a ubiquitous and important property of nature – not a unique phenomenon in the cuprates

The Department of Physics has received a significant philanthropic donation from the Binks Trust, which will be used to enhance its solar energy research over the coming years.

Dr Suhas Mahesh is one of 28 early-career scientists awarded a Schmidt Science Fellowship joining a global lifelong community of 84 fellows working at the intersection of disciplines to advance science for the public benefit.

In a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source, a technique has been developed that allows for the measurement of the skyrmion Hall angle in the skyrmion lattice state.