above pic – Damon de Laszlo alongside Professor Karen O’Brien and Professor Carlos Frenk with the unveiled sculpture, The Journey, which Damon donated alongside Robert Hefner III. The Journey, by John Robinson, is one of many sculptures donated by Damon since the Ogden Centre opened.
20th anniversary of the Ogden…
I have really enjoyed studying physics at Durham – there are so many interesting and unfamiliar concepts to tackle. In first year, I learnt about many new concepts in special relativity and quantum physics, and I personally found these to be the most interesting topics covered. There are also mathematics modules and a lab…
Hi there! My name is Tom and I am a postgraduate MSc Particles, Strings and Cosmology student. I was born in Sunderland, raised in Penshaw and completed my undergraduate studies in Newcastle; for my academic upbringing I haven’t travelled far, however, I can assure you that it has been the time of my life nevertheless. I’m…
Above image – An artist’s impression of a micronova explosion from the base of the accretion stream at the magnetic pole of an accreting white dwarf in a binary star system. Credit Mark Garlick and Durham University.
My research project
In the academic year 2020-21, I spent my MPhys project at Durham trying to…
cover image The Large Diameter Centrifuge at ESA ESTEC where Spin Your Thesis! Experiments are held. (Credit: ESA)
When I began studying at Durham for my Physics degree back in 2019, I could not help but try and imagine where I would find myself in the far future. Would I be in a university doing research? Maybe I’ll be…
Colliding Worlds: how a PhD in particle physics can help respond to crises
30th September 2021
About me
I’m Joe, I’ve just finished my PhD at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) in the Department of Physics at Durham. I’m part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Intensive Science and my research has focussed on using machine learning and other emerging technologies in particle…
Durham University PhD astrophysics research student Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro talks about how her studies have led her to learn a lot about machine learning statistics and Artificial Intelligence, skills that can be applied to other fields like healthcare and natural language processing.
Find out more about Astronomy and Cosmology…
When I started my PhD, I imagined that in four years time I would become a highly specialised researcher in Cosmology, and would not learn much about anything else. However, since I started my studies at Durham I have worked in widely different fields such as epidemiological simulations, Astrophysics and Natural Language…
Last year I completed my PhD on planetary giant impacts in the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, and am happily continuing to work on similar things. Our solar system used to be a much more violent place, with early planets crashing into each other to create the worlds we see today. Since we can’t…
Hi There! I am Giorgio and I am an astrophysicist, and guess what? Today I’m here to speak about… babies. Yes, you heard it right, and it’s not a cool way to name galaxies or stars but I am referring to actual babies! More precisely a few hours old babies. Curious, about why? Well, I am here to explain. Trying…
