News archive: 2024

Congratulations to Gill Maddy who received a Staff Experience Award.

Congratulations to Dr Franz Herzog who has received a European Research Council Consolidator Grant.

The School awards prizes to the research students who have produced the best PhD thesis.

Ion decay sheds light on solar neutrino flux.

Congratulations to students who received medals, certificates, prizes and scholarships at the School’s Undergraduate and MSc Student Awards Ceremony.

Galaxy mapping data also tests how gravity behaves at cosmic scales.

Award funds will support Dr Wood’s business ventures in utilising scientific advancements to address societal challenges.

Team successfully measure the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionized thallium-205 ions.

Prize funds will be used to carry out research in topological problems in soft matter physics.

A spacecraft has revealed the first section of what is set to be the largest 3D map of the Universe ever made.

Colleagues are saddened by the loss of physicist Professor Ian Shipsey, who passed away on Monday 7 October.

PhD students from 31 countries attend training in Peebles, Scotland

The Short-Baseline Near Detector collects data that will expand our knowledge of how neutrinos interact with matter and will be used to search for evidence of new physics.

The data gathered provides unprecedented insights into the structure and composition of the Milky Way.

Research could have implications on the emulsification and stability of new materials.

Detector explores weaker dark matter interactions than ever searched for before.

Congratulations to Dr Cyrielle Opitom who has been appointed a member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland.

Arts festival participants learn about the work of the late Prof Peter Higgs and the satellite exploring the mysteries of the dark Universe.

MSc students share science about life on other planets for Mars video game.

The School of Physics and Astronomy is delighted to welcome Professor Philip Best to the position of Head of School

Congratulations to Dr Stewart Gault who has received a grant to support research into the survival of bacteria at low temperatures.

Congratulations to Dr Beckmann who has received a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship.

Congratulations to Dr Wood who has received an award for her contribution to the Society of Chemical Industry.

Astronomers have created the most detailed weather report so far for two distant worlds beyond our own solar system.

Congratulations to Dr Barter who has been elected as LHCb-UK Physics Coordinator.

Congratulations to Dr Erin Goldstraw who has been awarded a Daphne Jackson fellowship.

Professor Murray Campbell’s community service has been recognised with the award of the British Empire Medal.

Congratulations to Gracie McGill who has been awarded a Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund.

Congratulations to Chancellor’s Fellows Drs Gurtej Kanwar, Sarah Rugheimer and Catriona Wimberley.

Congratulations to Susanna Richmond who has been awarded the University of Edinburgh’s Impact Enabler prize.

Discovery of planet Gliese 12 b may help unlock some aspects of our own solar system’s evolution.

Results provide a glimpse of the telescope’s power and performance.

Undergraduate Open Days 2024

Professor Victoria Martin joins the 57 names recognised as being some of the greatest thinkers, researchers and practitioners working in or with Scotland today.

Congratulations to Dr Davide Michieletto who has been awarded the British Biophysical Society Louise Jonson Early Career Award.

Congratulations to PhD student Annemiek Waajen who has been selected as a Schmidt Science Fellow.

Congratulations to Dr Sally Shaw who has been awarded the Institute of Physics High Energy Particle Physics Group Prize.

Colleagues from the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit involved in Gaia space telescope discovery, which challenges our understanding of how massive stars develop and evolve.

Congratulations to Professors Marialuisa Aliotta and Annette Ferguson who have received European Research Council Advanced grants.

Colleagues are saddened by the loss of renowned physicist Professor Peter Higgs who has died, aged 94, after a short illness.

Funding has been received to continue opportunities as part of the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) project.

Insight could be used to create more durable foldable smartphones.

Congratulations to Dr Christopher Stock who has received a research collaboration grant in this latest round of awards.

Congratulations to Somrita Ray, the School’s inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Fellow, who has been appointed in a permanent position.

Congratulations to Jordan Marsh who has won the Institute of Physics (IoP) Nuclear Physics Thesis Prize.

Study suggests how biological fluids balance motion while protecting structure.

Funding received to understand factors such as communicative need, social aspects and learning biases.