I'm Adam Ingram

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics and Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Newcastle University Observational Astronomy group. I use X-ray observations and theoretical modelling to probe the environment of accreting black holes. This helps us learn about the very strong gravitational fields close to black hole event horizons, and how these objects formed and grew to their current sizes. My interests include quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and the idea that they result from relativistic precession, using X-ray reverberation mapping to measure black hole properties such as mass, and X-ray polarimetry, which has recently been made possible since the launch of IXPE. Below you can find details of my research and teaching activities, source code of my reverberation mapping model RELTRANS, and the website of my ERC Consolidator Grant project X-MAPS.