Skip to main content
Home
Department Of Physics text logo
  • Research
    • Our research
    • Our research groups
    • Our research in action
    • Research funding support
    • Internships for undergraduates
  • Study
    • Undergraduates
    • Postgraduates
  • Engage
    • For alumni
    • For business
    • For schools
    • For the public
Menu

Latest news and comment

Clockwise from top left: Sneha Malde, Gavin Dalton, Paolo Radaelli, Aris Karastergiou and Matt Jarvis

Excellence in research supervision

Five academics in the Department of Physics have been recognised in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division’s inaugural Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision.
18 January 2023
Just some of the 64 antennae that make up MeerKAT in South Africa

RAS recognition for MeerKAT

The MeerKAT Team has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Group Achievement Award for Astronomy.
13 January 2023
Oxford experiment in space

Oxford students successfully send an experiment into space

In November 2021, a team of graduate students from Oxford teamed up with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to turn the ideas of secondary school children into real experiments for launch to the International Space Station. 
20 December 2022
Location of the EHT telescopes seen from the direction of the black hole in the Galactic centre as the Earth rotates.

Grant to build new telescope in Africa to enable colour movies of black holes

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant, named BlackHolistic, of 14 million Euro to a team of British, Dutch, Finnish and Namibian astronomers to make colour movies of black holes.
14 December 2022
Dr Nick Bultinck, left, and Dr James Matthews, right

Royal Society University Research Fellows join Physics

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.
12 December 2022
The JWST image with the WEAVE LIFU pointing at Stephan's Quintet for the first-light observation.

UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth.
12 December 2022
Professor Stephen Smartt

Meet...Stephen Smartt

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
12 December 2022
This image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the region of study by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES).

Webb latest: new milestone in search for distant galaxies

An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the Universities of Hertfordshire, Cambridge and Oxford, has today reported the discovery of the earliest galaxies ever confirmed in our Universe thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.
9 December 2022
Aerial photograph of the current Simons Observatory site

Oxford role in search for origins of Universe

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund.
17 October 2022
Stephan's Quintet (a group of five galaxies)

JWST sheds light on galaxy organic molecules in black holes

Research led by Dr Ismael García-Bernete from the University of Oxford is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the nuclear region of active galaxies using early observations from the JWST.
11 October 2022
Professor Stephen Smartt, left, and Oliver Jeffers at Cheltenham Literature Festival

A stroll around the Solar System

Professor Stephen Smartt joined the artist and author Oliver Jeffers on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 8 October in the Garden Theatre.
11 October 2022
Professor Stephen Smartt

Stellar astrophysicist appointed Wetton Chair

The Department of Physics is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS as Philip Wetton Chair of Astrophysics.
1 September 2022
  • Load More

Footer Menu

  • Contact us
  • Giving to the Dept of Physics
  • Work with us

User account menu

  • Log in

Follow us

FIND US

Clarendon Laboratory,

Parks Road,

Oxford,

OX1 3PU

CONTACT US

Tel: +44(0)1865272200

University of Oxfrod logo Department Of Physics text logo
IOP Juno Champion logo Athena Swan Silver Award logo

© University of Oxford - Department of Physics

Cookies | Privacy policy | Accessibility statement

Built by: Versantus

  • Home
  • Research
  • Study
  • Engage
  • Our people
  • News & Comment
  • Events
  • Our facilities & services
  • About us
  • Current students
  • Staff intranet