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Head of Particle Physics, Professor Daniela Bortoletto, talks to Oxford alumnus Mark Thomson, CERN Director-General, about what is in store for CERN as it prepares for a major upgrade that will take 4 years.

Dr Babak Abi, Dr Farrukh Azfar and Dr Sam Henry have all been recognised for their work reporting the results from the measurement campaigns at Fermilab.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced its preliminary selection of payloads for its future Mars exploration mission and the results include an Oxford Physics-led instrument named BEBOP.

A consortium across six UK universities has been awarded an STFC Astronomy Large Award to fund their work analysing data from the Simons Observatory; Professor David Alonso explains how it could shed light on dark matter, dark energy and the Big Bang.

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 recognising her work in revolutionising silicon detector technology and in supporting women in physics.

No bigger than a shoebox, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the Department of Physics, will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission on Wednesday 26 February.

Dr Boon Kok Tan is a senior researcher in astrophysics of the Department of Physics. His ERC research project aims to advance ultra-sensitive instrumentation for microwave, millimetre (mm), sub-mm, and terahertz (THz) frequencies.

Secondary school students taking part in the Big Data: ATLAS project have had their results published in the European Physical Journal Plus.

The Department of Physics is partnering with the University of Nottingham's ARTlab to host artist-in-resident Matthew Woodham as he works on an original art piece inspired by the Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network (AION) project.

Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics, has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to particle physics and to gender equality.

Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, Head of Department, has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his leadership in experimental particle physics.

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