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Professor Sonia Antoranz Contera has been awarded the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom Merit Award 2024 for her pioneering and exceptional international career in the fields of nanotechnology and biological physics.

Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Europhysics Prize 2024 for his pioneering studies of photo-induced emergent phases of quantum materials.

Dr Yonadav Barry Ginat, Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded the International Astronomical Union’s PhD Prize for Division D

An international team of scientists, led by the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening up a new frontier in laboratory astrophysics.

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

Dr Heloise Stevance, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship 2024.

Breakthrough Listen’s Dr Brian C Lacki, a theoretical astronomer with the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, has recently published two papers that look at the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in a new light.

Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate – slower than any of the more than 3,000 radio emitting neutron stars measured to date.

The discovery of the most distant galaxy yet seen was announced today by an international team, with Oxford astronomers playing a key role

National forecasting centres like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how human behaviour is aggravating major events like floods, heatwaves and storms.

A community engagement project supported by the Department of Physics was named joint winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Community Partnership Award 2024.

Professor Laura Herz has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for her study of light-harvesting and energy-conversion pathways in emerging semiconducting materials.