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Axion search experiment installed in the interaction chamber of the HED/HiDEF instrument at the European XFEL.

XFELs join the hunt for axions: a new light in the dark sector

Researchers have unveiled an innovative experimental approach using an X ray free electron laser (XFEL) to probe for axions – elusive particles that may make up dark matter.
17 February 2025
Beecroft building

New Denys Firth Scholarship: empowering the next generation of physicists

The Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division at the 91̽»¨ is delighted to announce the establishment of the Denys Firth Scholarship in Theoretical Physics.
3 February 2025
Professor James Binney

Professor Binney awarded RAS Gold Medal

Professor Binney awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal for his lifetime achievements in the study of the structure and evolution of galaxies.
10 January 2025
Professor Ard Louis

Commentary: Professor Louis on oxDNA and the magic of self-assembly

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he shares the story of oxDNA, the most successful and widely adopted coarse-grained model for DNA self-assembly.
12 December 2024
Jonathan Classen-Howes

Poster Prize for Classen-Howes

DPhil student Jonathan Classen-Howes was awarded the Early Career Researcher Poster Prize at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group Meeting organised by IOP.
16 September 2024
Jasmine Brewer

Meet...Jasmine Brewer

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
10 September 2024
Professor Julia Yeomans

Professor Yeomans recognised by EPS

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division’s Liquid Matter Prize 2024.
9 September 2024
Professor Gavin Salam

Professor Salam receives Frontiers of Science Award

Together with professors Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason and Giulia Zanderighi, Professor Gavin Salam has been awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science.
1 August 2024
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
17 June 2024
Artist’s rendering of a black hole emitting a jet of hot gas known as plasma.

Pioneering lab-generated plasma ‘fireballs’

An international team of scientists, led by the Department of Physics at the 91̽»¨, has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening up a new frontier in laboratory astrophysics.
13 June 2024
The black hole pulls material from a companion star towards it, forming a disc that rotates around the black hole before falling into it.

First proof of black hole ‘plunging regions'

Einstein has been proved correct with a key prediction about black holes, an international team led by researchers from the Department of Physics at 91̽»¨.
16 May 2024
Professor Siddharth Parameswaran in front of a black chalk board

Commentary: Professor Parameswaran on the frontiers of quantum physics

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.
23 April 2024
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