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Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS, recently appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute (OQI), has also been named a member of the National Quantum Strategic Advisory Board.

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS has been appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute at Oxford University.

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Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK.

Oxford University’s brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies is an innovative interdisciplinary course that provides students with a technical overview of modern quantum technologies for computing, sensing and communications.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a new approach to simulate turbulent systems, based on probabilities. The findings have been published today in the journal Science Advances.

Professor Siddharth Parameswaran from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded a much sought-after European Research Council Consolidator Grant; he shares his plans for his future research.

Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics.

Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023.

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

The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards.

Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022.