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, who succesfully defended her PhD in the CFSA, supervised by , has been awarded the for her PhD work. The prize was awarded following the careful evaluation of a qualified and esteemed commission. It is in honor of Prof Vincenzo Ferraro, an eminent Italian Astrophysicist who discovered the “Ferraro-Rosenbluth” sheath amongst many other discoveries. The prize supports and promotes studies of magneto hydrodynamics applied to astrophysics by giving an award every year to the best MSc or PhD thesis within the area of magneto hydrodynamics of space or laboratory plasma.

Caroline Shenton Taylor who was a physics undergraduate has won the UK final of the Fame Lab competition and now will be involved in the international final at the Times Cheltenham science festival. Caroline was one of our undergraduates and did her PhD on Compton scattering under Jon Duffy.

The Physics department is delighted to announce the renewal of our Athena SWAN Silver Award for promoting good working practices and gender equality in Physics.

A couple of 3rd year students were good ambassadors for the physics department as they won the recent nPower Energy Challenge competition...