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The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is delighted to be part of the brand new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Superconductivity: Enabling Transformative Technologies.

Dr Beatriz Monge-Sanz explores links between global warming and an increase in the frequency and intensity of cold spells in The Conversation.

The Oxonians Reloaded came first at this year's preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS. Meet them here.

A team from Oxford’s Department of Physics, Oxonians Reloaded, secured first place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS.

Dr Nakita Noel is an EPSRC Research Fellow at the Department of Physics. Her work is generating new insights into perovskites to accelerate the development of high-performance perovskite solar cells and LEDs.

Dr Nakita Noel has been given a 2023/24 MPLS Award for Outstanding Research Supervision.

Professor Stephen Smartt, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship.

Researchers from Oxford University’s Department of Physics have made a breakthrough in creating and designing magnetic whirls in membranes that can be seamlessly integrated with silicon.

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

The Department of Physics’ mentoring programme, aimed particularly at early career researchers, provides both mentors and mentees alike with a range of opportunities and positively benefits all those involved.

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford have discovered the brightest and most distant extragalactic hydroxyl maser from an untargeted survey with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.

New workshop exploring astronomy through the explored topics in astrophysics through poetry and visual art