School of Physics and Astronomy

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day

Wednesday 15 February

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New materials to drive UK economic growth

The Government has announced a £95 million boost to develop the new materials of the future through research at the Henry Royce Institute

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Grant Shapps, the Business Secretary, touring a lab at the Henry Royce Institute looking at equipment with two lab assistants.

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New facilities

Take a 360 tour around our brand new physics teaching and research facilities in the Sir William Henry Bragg Building

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Two second year students in a lab at the University of Leeds.

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Postgraduate virtual open day
Henry Royce Institute
New facilities

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99%

"world-leading" or "internationally excellent"

Submitted research - REF 2021

Top 100

World Top 100 University

QS World University Rankings 2023

Silver

award for our commitment to gender equality

Athena SWAN Charter

Research and innovation

Our research activity covers the following main areas: Star and planetary system formation; Spintronics in condensed matter; Experimental biophysics and bio-nanoscience; Dynamics of polymers and complex fluids; and Quantum information theory and its applications.

In addition, we are applying our collective expertise to the development of sustainable energy harvesting and storage, and towards translation into healthcare and medicine.