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The Department of Physics is partnering with the University of Nottingham's ARTlab to host artist-in-resident Matthew Woodham as he works on an original art piece inspired by the Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network (AION) project.

Together with professors Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason and Giulia Zanderighi, Professor Gavin Salam has been awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science.

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

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is to lead a new national quantum computing hub to develop the technologies needed for the UK to play a key role in the quantum computing market – estimated to be worth $1.3 trillion by 2035.

Professor David Marshall has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards.

Dr Raghavendra Srinivas has been awarded Optica’s Theodor W Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics for his work to create and manipulate nonclassical states of trapped ions.

Dr Carly Howett, Associate Professor of Space Instrumentation, answers Oxford Sparks’ big question: what time is it on the moon?

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; here, we meet climate scientist Dr Shruti Nath

Dr Peter Leek has been appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Oxford University spin-out Oxford Quantum Circuits. He will split his time between the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford and OQC.

The Department of Physics welcomed Professor Peter Coles from Maynooth University to its inaugural Pride Lecture.

Climate scientists from the Department of Physics have joined forces with the United Nations World Food Programme and intergovernmental and national forecasting agencies to pioneer a transformative initiative.

Muhammad Hamza Waseem has won the MPLS Public Engagement with Research Award for his innovative approach to teaching quantum science to high school students.