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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’.

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Sam Edwards Medal and Prize 2021 in recognition of her personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profession.

Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021.

Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021.

Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

Professor Ard Louis speaks to Ursule Demael about the contributions of theoretical physics to understanding biological evolution and self-assembly.

We are looking for the most talented early-career theoretical physicists worldwide to join us here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics in Oxford.

The Department of Physics is delighted to confirm the appointment of Professor Shivaji Sondhi to the University’s Wykeham Professorship of Physics, a Leverhulme International Professorship, and the Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics.