Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Dr Nakita Noel: a profile 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. 29 February 2024 Dr Noel receives Outstanding Research Supervision award Dr Nakita Noel has been given a 2023/24 MPLS Award for Outstanding Research Supervision. 22 February 2024 Professor Riede recognised by International Science Council 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. 19 December 2023 Meet...Saqlain Choudhary We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 November 2023 Building the future: developing next-gen materials at Oxford World-class vacuum deposition capabilities to develop next-gen advanced functional materials 23 November 2022 Professor Michael Johnston recognised by APS 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. 19 October 2022 Professor Snaith awarded Louisville’s renewable energy prize Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy. 9 August 2022 New Rudolf Peierls Scholarship to help advance photovoltaic research A new graduate scholarship has been established in the Department of Physics following a gift of £86,000 from alumnus Nick Greenwood. 7 July 2022 Professor Herz recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Laura Herz from Oxford’s Department of Physics has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award. 7 June 2022 Meet...Robert Taylor We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 June 2022 Dr Alexandra Ramadan receives Research Visionary Award Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award. 5 November 2021 Professor Snaith awarded Rank Prize Professor Henry Snaith, Binks Professor of Renewable Energy, is one of seven internationally leading scientists to be awarded the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 2022. 28 September 2021 Load More
Dr Nakita Noel: a profile 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. 29 February 2024
Dr Noel receives Outstanding Research Supervision award Dr Nakita Noel has been given a 2023/24 MPLS Award for Outstanding Research Supervision. 22 February 2024
Professor Riede recognised by International Science Council 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. 19 December 2023
Meet...Saqlain Choudhary We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 November 2023
Building the future: developing next-gen materials at Oxford World-class vacuum deposition capabilities to develop next-gen advanced functional materials 23 November 2022
Professor Michael Johnston recognised by APS 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. 19 October 2022
Professor Snaith awarded Louisville’s renewable energy prize Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy. 9 August 2022
New Rudolf Peierls Scholarship to help advance photovoltaic research A new graduate scholarship has been established in the Department of Physics following a gift of £86,000 from alumnus Nick Greenwood. 7 July 2022
Professor Herz recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Laura Herz from Oxford’s Department of Physics has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award. 7 June 2022
Meet...Robert Taylor We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 June 2022
Dr Alexandra Ramadan receives Research Visionary Award Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award. 5 November 2021
Professor Snaith awarded Rank Prize Professor Henry Snaith, Binks Professor of Renewable Energy, is one of seven internationally leading scientists to be awarded the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 2022. 28 September 2021