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Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in Oxfordshire.

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

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

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.

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

Writing in Nature, a team of physicists including three from Oxford - DPhil student Yves Kwan and Professors Shivaji Sondhi and Sid Parameswaran – report the emergence of an unusual new state of matter in a newly-explored moiré system

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper

Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition

Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit.

Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’.