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The Department of Physics is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS as Philip Wetton Chair of Astrophysics.

Professor Matt Jarvis has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant designed to support excellent scientists who are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements.

An international group of researchers, including Dr Gareth Jones from Oxford’s Department of Physics, has put forward an alternative theory to the creation of a class of bright, massive galaxies in the early Universe

Professor Andy Bunker gives a potted history of the JWST and shares his excitement for a revolution in observational astronomy

The latest addition to the William Herschel Telescope will be able to survey 1,000 stars per hour revealing how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.

Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.

An international team of scientists, including Professor Rob Fender, Dr Ian Heywood and Dr Jakob van den Eijnden from the University of Oxford, have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly.

As part of a wider collaboration, Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou and her group have used a new method to find out more about a highly star-forming class of galaxies in the Universe.

An international team of researchers including Dr Sebastian von Hausegger, used insights from physics, mathematics, and computer science to create a novel method that traces the movement of galaxies back in time.

Astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst, talks all things astronomy to celebrate Astronomy Day, 7 May 2022.

A team from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of two from Oxford who will work on the crucial software and computer hardware for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the world's largest radio telescope.