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Professor Amalia Coldea takes a look at the basics of superconductivity research, advances made in understanding iron-based superconductors and the challenge of room temperature superconductivity.

Professor Laura Herz from Oxford’s Department of Physics has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award.

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

Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award

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

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

Over the last few months, four groups from the Department of Physics have moved to join the newly founded Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery; we take a tour and find out more

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

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.