The School of Physics at the HH Wills Building has recently supported local science education through the donation of surplus laboratory glassware to Oasis Academy Brightstowe.
Professor Tom Scott, from the School of Physics' Interface Analysis Centre, has recently been interviewed for a Channel 4 Documentary on Fukushima.
Rhys Morris, from the School of Physics' Astrophysics group, is part of an international collaboration that have made an unexpected discovery of a massive bar of Iron crossing the Ring Nebula.
A huge congratulations to University of Bristol Emeritus Professor, Sir Michael Berry, who has been awarded the Institute of Physics prestigious Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture for the year 2025.
Many congratulations to Dr. Sven Friedemann of the Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, who has been awarded the Brian Pippard Prize, a prize for scientists working in the UK who has made a significant contribution to superconductivity in recent years.
We are delighted to announce that our very own Dr. Shuqiu Wang, of the Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, has been successfully awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Fellowship, to develop a new type of quantum microscope to discover new phases of quantum matter for novel energy-efficient electronic applications.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Isobel Romero-Shaw, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in our Astrophysics research theme, has been awarded a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Congratulations to Dr. Sam Cross from our Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, who has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded to the author of the PhD thesis that makes the strongest contribution to the understanding of superconductivity within a given year.
Emeritus Professor Bob Evans in Theoretical Physics along with collaborators at the University of Bayreuth have introduced a powerful machine learning method for extracting effective interaction potentials from structural data on liquids, that could prove important in soft matter design.
Bristol researchers, in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team from Oxford and Strathclyde, have introduced a new scheme for speeding up quantum measurements, a vital building block for quantum technologies. This has been published in Physical Review Letters and been chosen as an “Editor’s suggestion”.
The School of Physics' very own Dr. Shuqiu Wang, Lecturer in Quantum Materials, has been awarded a prestigious UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award. The £942,830 grant will support Wang's frontier research into visualizing and understanding the complex interplay between electron correlations, topology, and magnetism in quantum materials over the next three years.
The School of Physics' very own Professor Sandy Popescu and Dr. Daniel Collins have had some of their work around quantum innovation around the multiverse posted in the NewScientist.
The School of Physics' very own Dr. Hannah Wakeford has won a prestigious national accolade to help further unravel the mysterious world of exoplanets.
Dr. Jonathan Buhot, from our Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, has been awarded an EPSRC Open Fellowship to undertake research within the School of Physics on hydride superconductors.
Over the summer, Dr. James Drewitt, Alegra Skare, and Dr. Adrian Barnes have developed a new acoustic levitation system called MultiLev, designed for dynamic positioning of multiple samples in mid-air.
An exciting new article on superconductivity has been published in Science Advances, co-authored by School of Physics academics Dr. Sven Friedemann, Dr. Felix Flicker, Dr. Jonathan Buhot and Dr. Jake Ayres
In new research physicists have wielded the power of chess to design a group of intricate mazes, which could ultimately be used to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
We are very excited to announce our Climate Action Event in the School of Physics will be on Friday 26th April
The University of Bristol is celebrating nine Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) which will equip and nurture engineering and science students, thanks to a nationally-leading £57 million funding boost from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and its Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Come along to the most imminent of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Come along to the most imminent of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Come along to the most imminent of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
This article details the full list of Colloquia scheduled for the Spring 2024 season, with all the available relevant information for each session included.
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Come along to the fifth of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Come along to the fourth of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Come along to the third of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Come along to the second of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Posted here is the full schedule of talks convened by Chaos taking place across TB1.
The School of Physics is celebrating the announcement that they have achieved two gender equality awards; the Juno Champion and Silver Athena Swan Award.
Come along to the inaugural Chaos Lecture; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
A public lecture by Emeritus Professor in Radio Astronomy J.M. van der Hulst, highlighting the importance of radio astronomy to society
Tam's work focused on 'Charge Density Waves in Infinite-layer Nickelates' and was awarded for its outstanding contribution to the field.
Since 2009, the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL) has awarded the annual EMFL Prize to an individual “for outstanding achievements in science done in high magnetic fields”.
A pioneering satellite mission to map and help unravel the mysteries of the universe will launch this week, with University of Bristol researchers playing a pivotal role in the project.
This seminar is on the topic of RIXS as a means to study complex interactions in correlated electronic systems. It will be presented by Qisi Wang (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This seminar is on the topic of density functional theory in tandem with local electron correlations from dynamical mean field theory. It will be presented by Dr. Alyn James.
An invitation to attend an extra special edition of our Physics Colloquium series, with Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Prof. Maxwell Chertok (University of California, Davis).
Read the May 2023 edition of the Materials and Devices newsletter.
This article details the full list of Colloquia scheduled for the Spring 2023 season, with all the relevant information for each session included.
The event will be a night of food and entertainment - tickets are available to purchase now.
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
This seminar is on the topic of superconducting spintronics and their future applications in information and quantum technologies. It will be presented by Dr. Niladri Banerjee (Imperial College London).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
This seminar is on the electron-phonon problem and its effect on our comprehension of conventional metals and superconductors. It will be presented by Professor Steven Kivelson (Stanford University).
Dr Takeshi Kondo (University of Tokyo) will be giving a presentation titled 'The doped Mott state and pseudo-gap of cuprate high-Tc superconductors studied by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy'.
Join us in a lecture titled 'From Studying Quarks to Beating Cancer: An upbeat story about death and destruction', presented by Professor Jaap Velthuis.
