Dr Imogen Whittam

I am a Hintze Fellow at the University of Oxford and Christ Church, researching galaxy evolution. I am particularly interested in radio galaxies - galaxies which spew powerful jets of very energetic particles from their centre - and the role they play in galaxy evolution.

I also work in the Research Facilitation team in the Physics Department, supporting fellowship and grant applications in the department.

I have a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, and before moving to Oxford I spent five years working as a SARAO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, where I am still an affiliated researcher.

Research interests

Astrophysics

Galaxy Evolution

Active Galactic Nuclei

Radio Astronomy

Radio Galaxies

Selected publications

Evidence for inverse Compton scattering in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 543:1 (2025) 507-517

IH Whittam, MJ Jarvis, Eric J Murphy, NJ Adams, RAA Bowler, A Matthews, RG Varadaraj, CL Hale, I Heywood, K Knowles, L Marchetti, N Seymour, F Tabatabaei, AR Taylor, M Vaccari, A Verma

MIGHTEE: multi-wavelength counterparts in the COSMOS field

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 527:2 (2023) 3231-3245

Imogen H Whittam, Matthew Prescott, Catherine L Hale, Matthew J Jarvis, Ian Heywood, Rebecca A Bowler, Peter W Hatfield, Rohan J Varadaraj

The Stripe 82 1–2 GHz Very Large Array Snapshot Survey: host galaxy properties and accretion rates of radio galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 480:1 (2018) 358-370

IH Whittam, M Prescott, K McAlpine, Matthew Jarvis, I Heywood

The faint radio source population at 15.7 GHz – IV. The dominance of core emission in faint radio galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 493:2 (2020) 2841-2853

Imogen Whittam, DA Green, Matthew Jarvis, JM Riley

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