Our research groups

Oxford's leading roles in the world's most powerful cm-wave radio telescope

The Mu3e experiment is a new search for the lepton-flavour violating decay of a positive muon into two positrons and one electron.

Our research involves fundamental studies of emergent phenomena in quantum materials using muon-spin rotation, an experimental technique involving implanting radioactive particles that acts as microscopic magnetometers.

Applications of quantum control to building small demonstration quantum computers with nuclear magnetic resonance

Our research currently focusses on applications of sensitive optical diagnostic techniques pioneered in the group for applications in engineering and chemistry.

Novel energy materials and advanced characterisation

We study the physics of synthetic biomolecular nanostructures in order to create disruptive technologies including probes of cellular structure and function, templates for molecular electronics and molecular machinery for atomically precise manufacture

The Oxford Physics Microstructure Detector (OPMD) laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation to evaluate sensors in the laboratory before and after irradiation as well as to build detector assemblies.

The Oxford Centre For High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS) brings together groups from across Atomic and Laser physics (and beyond) with an interest in the study of matter under extreme conditions.

We are currently working on Rotary Molecular Motors. In particular the Bacterial Flagellar Motor and F1FO ATP-synthase. The aim is to try and understand how these living machines work. We use a range of techniques. Molecular motors are tens of nanometre

We study novel quantum materials with the potential for integration in a new generation of fast, non-volatile memories and other electronic devices. Our current emphasis is on magnetic oxides which can be controlled by electric fields.

We develop mathematical theories to describe the fundamental properties of nature and explore their implications