Departmental news
Wednesday 31 May 2017
The department is delighted to announce that three honorary positions have been confirmed in the Department of Physics.
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Congratulations to Phil Hasnip who has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award.
Thursday 11 May 2017
The achievements of the department throughout the year were celebrated last week at the department's awards ceremony.
Tuesday 9 May 2017
The Royal Society recently launched its commissioned research and case studies on international researcher mobility.
Friday 28 April 2017
Physics have a Falling Walls Research Theme winner
Thursday 27 April 2017
Welcome to Beth Medley, our new Employability and Placement Officer at the White Rose Industrial Physics Academy (WRIPA).
Friday 21 April 2017
Listen to Laura’s summer internship experience at Jaguar Landrover, Engineering Centre, Coventry.
Friday 21 April 2017
Listen to Jonathan’s summer internship experience at Airbus UK.
Friday 21 April 2017
Listen to Sarah’s summer internship experience as an Ogden Trust Teaching intern.
Monday 27 March 2017
The nuclear applications group are holding a joint workshop at the University of York with physicists from the Ruder Boskovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia.
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Prof Mohamed Babiker was one of the lead editors of a theme issue titled `Optical orbital angular momentum', published by the Royal Society of London.
Tuesday 21 March 2017
A new £5.1m award will allow a consortium of top UK academics to develop computer codes and apply them to provide new insights into existing and predicted materials.
Thursday 16 March 2017
Listen to Alex’s summer internship experience at Documobi, Harrogate.
Thursday 16 March 2017
Listen to Archie’s summer internship experience at Castle European Ltd, Edinburgh.
Monday 13 March 2017
Professor Andrei Andreyev has been successful in his application for a prestigious CERN research associateship, based in Geneva.
Monday 13 March 2017
In mid-February 2017, the Binding Blocks paper was officially announced as published within the IOP Journal of Physics Education’s special issue: Focus on Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Thursday 9 March 2017
Dr Kate Lancaster was privileged to be invited to attend a ceremony to watch Professor Stephen Hawking receive the “Freedom of the City of London”.
Friday 3 March 2017
Listen to Joanna’s summer internship experience at FERA based at the National Agri-food Innovation Campus, York.
Tuesday 28 February 2017
Listen to Physics student Rachael’s summer internship experience at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France.
Monday 20 February 2017
Undergraduate Physics students can do a variety of internships in a number of different sectors.
Monday 20 February 2017
Listen to Andrew Hirst from the White Rose Industrial Physics Academy and Physics students talk about the practical steps that are necessary to successfully apply for a summer internship.
Monday 13 February 2017
Listen to Adam’s summer internship experience at the Central Laser Facility (CLF) that is part of the Science and Technologies Facilities Council’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Wednesday 18 January 2017
In recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.
Wednesday 11 January 2017
The Department of Physics is delighted to announce that Professor Jacek Dobaczewski has been appointed as the new Editor in Chief of Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (JPhysG). His term began on 1 January 2017.
Tuesday 20 December 2016
Largest physics-specific careers event in the UK held at the University of York
Monday 7 November 2016
Professor Irene D'Amico has been involved in an international collaboration which has discovered a 'twist' effect in spin waves.
Thursday 3 November 2016
Congratulations to Professor Brian Fulton who has been awarded the Institute of Physics Phillips prize 2016 for his substantial contribution to the work of the Institute of Physics and the UK nuclear physics community over many years. The award will be presented on Tuesday 29 November.
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Dr Marina Petri has been offered a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship to be held in the Department of Physics, University of York.
Thursday 15 September 2016
Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 September 2016, the University of York and JEOL (UK) Ltd.
Wednesday 7 September 2016
The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that British astronaut Tim Peake will be attending the University of York as part of the UK Space Agency’s Schools Conferences.
Wednesday 24 August 2016
AstroSoc, the University of York astronomy society, are fundraising to build a scale model of the solar system across the University of York.
Monday 22 August 2016
This year’s annual two-day Postgraduate (PG) Conference was held between 17 – 18 August 2016 in the Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul.
Monday 22 August 2016
Scientists in the University of York have received funding from EPSRC to optimise charge carrier mobility in nanoporous metal oxide films.
Tuesday 16 August 2016
Between 18 July and 5 August, the Nuclear Physics Group hosted one of this year's Nuclear Theory Training in Advanced Low Energy Nuclear Theory (TALENT) courses.
Thursday 11 August 2016
This year’s Girls in Physics residential was a resounding success, with 14 year 10 girls participating in a week of activities that saw them experience University life, try out hands-on experiments, and visit some of the world's largest research facilities.
Tuesday 9 August 2016
James Lees, 3rd year MPhys student, is writing a book entitled ‘Physics in 50 Milestone Moments’.
Wednesday 3 August 2016
Two York Plasma Institute PhD students won poster prizes at the recent European Physical Society Plasma Physics Conference, which was held in Leuven, Belgium from 4 to 8 July 2016.
Monday 18 July 2016
Miss Katherine Leech has been appointed to the STFC Advisory Panel for Public Engagement.
Monday 11 July 2016
Virgin Trains and the University of York have joined forces to create a workshop to encourage British children into science and engineering.
Monday 11 July 2016
At the recent Vice-Chancellor Teaching Awards 2016, Sam Thompson won a 'Postgraduate who teach' (PGWT) award.
Wednesday 6 July 2016
Dr Phil Lightfoot recently achieved the status of Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Wednesday 6 July 2016
We are delighted to announce that several of our physics staff have received promotions.
Tuesday 5 July 2016
Professor Mark Leake was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology on 1 July 2016.
Friday 1 July 2016
On Monday 27 June 2016, we held the 3rd annual Schools Physicist of the Year Awards.
Thursday 30 June 2016
Scientists in the Department of Physics’ York Plasma Institute (YPI) have received a £1M grant from EPSRC to study power exhaust in hot magnetic fusion plasmas (10s of millions C).
Tuesday 28 June 2016
TechYork 2016 was held in the Exhibition Centre in the University of York on Monday 27 June 2016.
Tuesday 28 June 2016
On Friday 17 June 2016, the Binding Blocks team at the University of York ran a training event for 50 teachers that recently visited CERN, through the National STEM Learning Centre.
Friday 17 June 2016
A student and an academic have been acknowledged for their excellent teaching.
Monday 13 June 2016
On Tuesday 31 May, the Department of Physics ran a training event for future presenters of Binding Blocks, a LEGO Nuclear Chart installation.
Monday 13 June 2016
Research on laser ablation at York undertaken by Professor Greg Tallents, Professor Nigel Woolsey and Dr Erik Wagenaars has been supported by an EPSRC network on Laser Based Production.
Monday 13 June 2016
Scientists from a large international collaboration (Oxford, AWE, CEA, LULI, Observatoire de Paris, University of Michigan and University of York) have succeeded for the first time to generate a laboratory analogue of a strong shock that takes place when matter falls at very high speed on the surface of extremely dense stars called white dwarfs.
Tuesday 24 May 2016
A University of York Physicist has been awarded the 2016 Rutherford Plasma Physics Communications Prize - for a presentation which has now been viewed nearly 70,000 times online.
Friday 6 May 2016
The Astrocampus will open for those wishing to see the transit of Mercury next week.
Friday 6 May 2016
Dr Greg Melia and co-authors have received an Outstanding Paper Award from the Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing.
Friday 29 April 2016
Professor Pratibha Gai has been elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Friday 22 April 2016
Following the recent visit by Dr Catalin Matei from ELI-NP, we have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the "Horia Hulubei" National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering in Romania.
Friday 22 April 2016
The Department's first Physics Awards were held yesterday.
Friday 15 April 2016
The University of York has been selected to host a major educational conference on space exploration which will involve hundreds of young people showcasing their projects linked to Tim Peake’s Principia mission.
Thursday 14 April 2016
If you are thinking of a PhD, have you thought about Fusion Energy?
Monday 11 April 2016
Scientists at the University of York aim to unleash the untapped potential of the physical sciences in the search for new treatments for human infection and inflammatory diseases.
Thursday 31 March 2016
Scientists from the University of York teamed up with colleagues from over 30 universities and institutes across Europe to investigate to what extent quantum simulations of material properties agree when they are performed by different researchers and with different software.
Tuesday 22 March 2016
The University of York is to benefit from investment in science and engineering research totalling £204 million announced by Science minister, Jo Johnson.
Friday 26 February 2016
An 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant discovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire is unique in the UK, according to new research.
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Mr Daniel Doherty, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Nuclear Physics has won the IoP Nuclear Physics Early Career Award for 2015.
Wednesday 17 February 2016
We are pleased to announce that we are running a new Physics Photography Competition. The categories are outlined below and each carries a prize of £30 for first place and £10 for second place. Prizes will be awarded at the Physics Prize Ceremony on Thursday 21 April 2016.
Thursday 11 February 2016
Following February’s successful academic access campaign on Orion, the University of York, Queens University of Belfast, Imperial College and University of Michigan team returned in November for two more weeks.
Friday 5 February 2016
University of York physicists will host a series of courses, meetings and a visitor programme bringing together the UK nuclear theory community this year.
Friday 29 January 2016
The Department of Physics is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend (30 January) with a day of special physics-themed events.
Tuesday 19 January 2016
Congratulations to our York Centre for Quantum Technologies (YCQT) colleague, Dr David Bruschi, who in collaboration with Professor Ivette Fuentes, Chair in Theoretical Quantum Optics at the University of Vienna, was successful in securing €232,691 from the Templeton Foundation.
Tuesday 15 December 2015
The University of York is pleased to offer up to 10 joint-funded PhD scholarships in collaboration with the China Scholarships Council (CSC).
Monday 9 November 2015
For the first time a powerful laser has been used to further our understanding of some of the most mysterious celestial objects just beyond the solar system - brown dwarfs.
Tuesday 3 November 2015
Dr Steve Tear has been offered and accepted the position of Director of the York JEOL Nanocentre.
Wednesday 28 October 2015
Dr Aires Ferreira has devised a new method that can realistically predict the behaviour of electric currents as they pass through materials.
Tuesday 27 October 2015
Professor Thomas Krauss has been appointed a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Professor John Helliwell is a York Physics alumnus and a previous member of staff.
Friday 18 September 2015
A new quantum transport method pioneered by Dr Aires Ferreira has been employed to test early conjectures on the exotic nature of quantum transport at the Dirac point of graphene systems, a fully quantum regime so far inaccessible.
Friday 4 September 2015
Dr Matt Probert has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP).
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Professor Ed Boyes has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP).
Tuesday 11 August 2015
Professor Jacek Dobaczewski has been awarded the Wojciech Rubinowicz prize by the Polish Physical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Fizyczne - PTF).
Tuesday 21 July 2015
Our physicists are scanning the night skies, with the help of a telescope on the other side of the world, in an effort to understand why stars brighten and dim.
Friday 17 July 2015
Physicists, including Dr Alison Laird and Dr Christian Diget, at the University of York have revealed a new understanding of nucleosynthesis in stars, providing insight into the role massive stars play in the evolution of the Milky Way and the origins of the Solar System.
Friday 10 July 2015
Two honorary positions have been confirmed in the Department of Physics: Professor Dieter Weller as Honorary Visiting Professor and Dr Matt Reinke as Honorary Visiting Fellow.
Thursday 9 July 2015
Professor Sarah Thompson has been elected Vice-President, Science and Innovation at the Institute of Physics.
Friday 3 July 2015
Thirteen of our current PhD students presented their SIESTA talks over the weekend at the York Physics Day, a Teacher's Conference held at the National Science Learning Centre on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June 2015.
Thursday 2 July 2015
Professor Averil Macdonald, IOP fellow and York Physics graduate and honorary graduand, has received an award in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Thursday 2 July 2015
Our status as Project Juno Champion was renewed through to June 2017.
Wednesday 10 June 2015
The University of York is holding an astronomical festival, Big Telescopes, from 12-16 June, featuring the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) roadshow: ‘Seeing the Universe in all its Light’.
Wednesday 10 June 2015
Professor Thomas Krauss is one of seven ‘Research Champions’ who will help to harness the University of York’s cross-disciplinary research strengths to best tackle the great scientific, social and environmental challenges of our time.
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Scientists at the University of York, including Physics Department researchers have made a significant advance that could make cell-based treatments for arthritis less of a lottery.
Monday 8 June 2015
Professor David Jenkins and Dr John Schofield, Head of the University’s Department of Archaeology, have investigated CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider on the Franco-Swiss border.
Monday 27 April 2015
Grace Picking, Physics and Astro-Physics graduate, has won April’s Consultant of the Month for Europe.
Friday 24 April 2015
The Department of Physics is now accepting entrants for an inaugural astronomical photography competition. The winning entries will make up a 2016 calendar.
Thursday 9 April 2015
University of York scientists have discovered a potential new treatment for prostate cancer using low temperature plasmas (LTPs).
Monday 23 March 2015
A chance discovery by a team of researchers, including Dr John Pasley, has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound.
Wednesday 18 March 2015
On Tuesday 10 March 2015, Professor Peter Main gave his last lecture in the Department of Physics.
Wednesday 18 March 2015
A new study reveals a nano-optical chip that makes it possible to generate and control nanoscale rogue waves.
Monday 2 March 2015
The University of York’s Department of Physics have appointed their first professor of Nuclear Physics Theory, Professor Jacek Dobaczewski.
Monday 2 March 2015
The University of York’s Astrocampus will host a range of events this year to celebrate both its first birthday and UNESCO’s International Year of Light.
