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Queen's staff recognised with high-level award
Staff Recognition | 29 April, 2025

Two Queen's software engineers have been singled out for a prestigious award from the Institute of Physics (IOP) for their work in discovering cosmic explosions, understanding their physics and playing leading roles in major international sky surveys

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Sun’s explosions echo in Earth’s skies
Science | 28 April, 2025

Earth’s atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the Sun than scientists previously believed, new research by Queen’s University Belfast has found.

Researchers collaborate on wave science for better, global outcomes
15 April, 2025

A pioneering new approach to ‘wave science’, aimed at improving outcomes across global healthcare, the environment, engineering and economics, has been published by a group of international researchers led by Queen’s University Belfast.

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New Queen’s scholarship opportunities will explore impact of AI on science and society
SOCIETY & TECHNOLOGY | 5 February, 2021

Thirty funded doctoral scholarships announced by Queen’s University Belfast are set to provide a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI) for every area of science and society.

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Queen’s academic wins prestigious European award for outstanding achievements in plasma diagnostics
19 May, 2023

A Queen’s University scientist has received a prestigious award for his outstanding achievements in plasma diagnostics.

Queen’s University researchers get funding boost as part of £9m neutron star collision project

Queen’s University Belfast researchers are part of a new international research group who have been awarded £9m to look at how neutron star mergers create heavy elements.

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Next generation of researchers awarded £98 million to tackle global issues
UNIVERSITY NEWS | 15 June, 2022

A key research talent in condensed matter physics will return to the UK to take up a prestigious fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast as part of a £97.8 million UK-wide programme.

Queen’s researchers to play key role in developing new tech for UK space missions
25 February, 2022

CPP research highlighted in Physics Today magazine
26 January, 2022

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QUEEN’S PHYSICIST RECOGNISED WITH PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AWARD
AWARDS | 29 November, 2021

Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis, Director of Research at Queen’s Astrophysics Research Centre, has been awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize for distinguished contributions to plasma, solar or space physics.

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Queen’s University experts track how COVID-19 started and spread in Northern Ireland
Research news | 7 October, 2021

A group of experts at Queen’s University Belfast have been using mathematical modelling to track the course of COVID-19 in Northern Ireland so that preparations can be made for future variants and diseases.

Scientists reveal extreme exoplanet is even more exotic than they thought
Science | 5 October, 2021

The fiery and inferno-like exoplanet WASP-76b, an ultra-hot Jupiter, may be even more sizzling than scientists thought.

Queen’s platform will bring the first motion picture of the Universe to global audience
SCIENCE | 12 August, 2021

Queen’s University Belfast is playing a key role in ensuring that people across the world can view the first inventory of the Universe recorded by the world’s largest digital camera.

Researchers at Queen’s explore the limitations of AI in predicting the solar magnetic field
SCIENCE | 12 February, 2021

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have explored the reliability and limitations of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in predicting the global solar magnetic field.

Astronomers detect new chemical signature in an exoplanet’s atmosphere
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | 27 April, 2021

An international collaboration of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast has discovered a new chemical signature in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, a planet that orbits a star other than the sun.

Queen’s scientists unlock another mystery of the Sun
Science | 25 May, 2021

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast are part of an international research team which has made an exciting new discovery of how magnetic waves can help to heat the Sun.

CPP members publish perspective in Nature journal
1 September, 2021

Knighthood honour for Dr Margarone
1 September, 2021

Researchers discover new tool to investigate more effective cancer treatment
Science | 4 November, 2021

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a new tool, which will help to investigate more effective forms of cancer treatment.

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