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Oxonians Reloaded, l-r: Atharva N Mahajan, Soubhagya Behera, Sidharth Chambocheri Veetil and Atharv S Mahajan

Meet...the Oxonians Reloaded

The Oxonians Reloaded came first at this year's preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS. Meet them here.
6 March 2024
Oxonians Reloaded, l-r: Atharva N Mahajan, Soubhagya Behera, Sidharth Chambocheri Veetil and Atharv S Mahajan

91̽»¨ undergrads take top spot at PLANCKS prelims 2024

A team from 91̽»¨â€™s Department of Physics, Oxonians Reloaded, secured first place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS.
4 March 2024
Dr Nakita Noel

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 Nakita Noel, centre front, and members of her research group in the Beecroft Building at the 91̽»¨

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 Stephen Smartt

Royal Society Research Professorship for Professor Smartt

Professor Stephen Smartt, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at the 91̽»¨, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship.
20 February 2024
Artist’s impression of magnetic whirls, such as merons and antimerons, generated in a free-standing and flexible membrane of hematite on a silicon wafer

Researchers achieve breakthrough in silicon-compatible magnetic whirls

Researchers from 91̽»¨ University’s Department of Physics have made a breakthrough in creating and designing magnetic whirls in membranes that can be seamlessly integrated with silicon.
19 February 2024
Mirella Lingwood

Meet...Mirella Lingwood

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
1 February 2024
Mentor Dr Chiara Marletto, left, and her mentee Dr Zuzana Coculova, right

Why mentoring matters

The Department of Physics’ mentoring programme, aimed particularly at early career researchers, provides both mentors and mentees alike with a range of opportunities and positively benefits all those involved.
1 February 2024
I-band image from the Subaru telescope showing the host galaxy (object on the left) of the OH megamaser and the galaxy (on the right) which is around halfway between us and the OH megamaser galaxy and is likely to be gravitationally lensing the OH megamaser

Discovery of brightest OH maser

Astrophysicists at the 91̽»¨ have discovered the brightest and most distant extragalactic hydroxyl maser from an untargeted survey with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
30 January 2024
Image distorted by lens

The art of astrophysics

New workshop exploring astronomy through the explored topics in astrophysics through poetry and visual art
30 January 2024
Face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope

Latest JWST images publicly released

A set of highly detailed images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have been publicly released today; the extraordinary images will provide several new puzzle pieces for astronomers and astrophysicists around the world.
29 January 2024
Young people peering through telescope

A stellar success: community stargazing

Community event in Blackbird Leys, run in collaboration with the History of Science Museum and community leaders from African Families in the UK (AFiUK)
29 January 2024
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