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Professor Moritz Riede from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is one of 13 Green Future Fellows to receive landmark funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Scientists have developed a new material that converts motion into electricity (piezoelectricity) with greater efficiency and without using toxic lead – paving the way for a new generation of devices that we use in everyday life.

Professor Michael Johnston has been awarded the Max Born Medal and Prize 2025 for his pioneering research on nanoscale semiconductors and devices across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Professor Laura Herz from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize.

Professor Laura Herz has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for her study of light-harvesting and energy-conversion pathways in emerging semiconducting materials.

Professor Marina Filip has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Semiconductors (C8) Early Career Scientist Prize 2023.

Dr Nakita Noel is an EPSRC Research Fellow at the Department of Physics. Her work is generating new insights into perovskites to accelerate the development of high-performance perovskite solar cells and LEDs.

Dr Nakita Noel has been given a 2023/24 MPLS Award for Outstanding Research Supervision.

Professor Moritz Riede has been appointed Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC) in recognition of his contributions to promoting science as a global public good.

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Professor Michael Johnston has been made a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society for the development of a new platform for terahertz photonics based on semiconductor nanowires.