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Professor Jayne Birkby

Professor Birkby Blavatnik Young Scientist Award finalist

Professor Jayne Birkby has been recognised by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences as a finalist in the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
17 January 2024
Professor Pedro Ferreira

Professor Ferreira recognised by RAS

Professor Pedro Ferreira has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Eddington Medal 2024 for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.
12 January 2024
The top row shows images of Uranus, left, and Neptune, right, from Voyager 2 in 1986 and 1989; the bottom row shows a reprocessing of the individual filter images in the study to determine the best estimate of the planets' true colours.

True colours: Neptune and Uranus

New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
8 January 2024
Professor Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Bortoletto appointed OBE

Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics, has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to particle physics and to gender equality.
2 January 2024
Professor Julia Yeomans

Professor Yeomans appointed OBE

Professor Julia Yeomans from the Department of Physics at the 91̽»¨ has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to physics.
2 January 2024
Professor Moritz Riede

Professor Riede recognised by International Science Council

Professor Moritz Riede has been appointed Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC) in recognition of his contributions to promoting science as a global public good.
19 December 2023
Patrick Baird

Obituary: Patrick Baird

The Department of Physics is sorry to announce the death of Patrick Baird. Patrick first came to the Departmento of Physics – or the Clarendon Laboratory, as it would have been then – in 1970 as a graduate student under the supervision of Professor Derek
19 December 2023
Sparshita Dey

Meet...Sparshita Dey

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
14 December 2023
Artist's impression of a laser-plasma accelerator

Advancing laser-plasma accelerators

Researchers at the Department of Physics at the 91̽»¨ have found solutions to two major challenges with laser-plasma accelerators.
14 December 2023
Professor Nynke Dekker will be joining the 91̽»¨'s Department of Physics in the New Year.

Professor Nynke Dekker joins 91̽»¨

Professor Nynke Dekker has been appointed to the Professorship of Biophysics in the Department of Physics with effect from 1 January 2024.
14 December 2023
Young people in a lecture theatre

The future of quantum technology

The first ever Youth Quantum Summit (YQS) took place at the 91̽»¨ on 4 November.
12 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
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