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Dr Robert Ewart

EPS recognition for Dr Robert Ewart

Dr Robert J Ewart has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award; he is the seventh winner from the University of Oxford in recent years.

Professor Simon Hooker

Professor Hooker recognised by APS

Professor Simon Hooker has been selected to become an American Physical Society Fellow for his pioneering contributions to the development of plasma-based, high-power optical waveguides and their application to laser-driven plasma accelerators.

Professor Tony Bell FRS

Royal Society honours Professor Bell FRS

Professor Tony Bell FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for his seminal contributions to theoretical developments of cosmic ray acceleration and origins.

Dr Yonadav Barry Ginat

Dr Ginat awarded thesis prize

Dr Yonadav Barry Ginat, Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded the International Astronomical Union’s PhD Prize for Division D

Simulation of the guiding of the high-energy laser pulse train (red) through a plasma channel (blue). The pulse train resonantly excites a large amplitude plasma wave that can be used to accelerate charged particles to GeV-scale energies

Advance in laser-driven accelerators

Researchers from the Department of Physics have taken a step closer to demonstrating a new generation of high-repetition-rate laser-driven particle accelerators; these compact accelerators could drive myriad applications.

Artist's impression of a laser-plasma accelerator

Advancing laser-plasma accelerators

Researchers at the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford have found solutions to two major challenges with laser-plasma accelerators.

14 December 2023

Professor Gianluca Gregori

Commentary: Professor Gregori on transforming laboratory astrophysics

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; he explains how the grant will help to transform laboratory astrophysics into a tool to investigate processes that cannot be easily captured by current theory and simulations.

12 December 2023

Dr Andrew Mummery

Thesis recognition for Dr Andrew Mummery

Dr Andrew Mummery from Oxford’s Department of Physics has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union and the Royal Astronomical Society for his thesis.

Image to represent fusion

Oxford University joins Imperial and York in £12 million fusion power industry partnership

A multi-institutional team will explore a new method for creating fusion power they hope could eventually be scaled to provide safe, clean, and abundant energy.

Book cover: The Language of Symmetry

The language of symmetry

Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023.

Dr Archie Bott

Meet...Archie Bott

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Dr Alex Picksley

Dr Picksley awarded Culham Thesis Prize

Dr Alex Picksley from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.