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Professor Michael Johnston has been given the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) Kenneth J Button Award 2027.

Professor JC Séamus Davis has been awarded the Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for his discovery and exploration of macroscopic quantum phenomena and states of matter.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new way to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) that circumvents the need for machine-learning models to rediscover relationships that physicists already know how to describe.

Following their success having come second in the University of Oxford’s annual Student Entrepreneurship Programme (StEP), a team of four students went on to win first prize in the Reuben College Entrepreneurship Forum 2026 pitching competition.

Researchers at Oxford’s Department of Physics have demonstrated a new way to control a robot using brain-inspired computing hardware based on physical waves.

Researchers in the Department of Physics have developed a new method that can watch thousands of individual DNA molecules in action and then read the exact sequence of each one, directly linking what a molecule does to the code it carries.

Professor Laura Herz FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for her outstanding research on the physics of light interaction and energy conversion in semiconductors, including metal-halide perovskites, nanomaterials and molecules.

Graduate students at the cutting edge of physics were able to share their work earlier this year at the 2026 Graduate Condensed Matter Physics Conference.

Dr Kang Wang and Professor Marina Filip were awarded an NVIDIA Academic Grant to support research into the behaviour of excitons in complex semiconductors.

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Physicists at Oxford have developed a new approach in the search for a 'quantum spin liquid', a long-sought state of quantum matter resembling a magnetic liquid whose quantum properties mean it never freezes.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has closed a £260 million Series C funding round — the largest ever raised by a quantum computing company in Europe.