Ilka Agricola

Ilka Agricola (born 8 August 1973 in The Hague) is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics. She is the dean of mathematics and computer science at Marburg University, where she has also been responsible for making the university's collection of mathematical models public.

Life and work Agricola studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and LMU Munich from 1991 to 1996.

From 2003 to 2008, she led one of the Volkswagen Foundation funded research groups at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the field of special geometries in mathematical physics. From 2004 to 2008, she was a project manager in the priority program for string theory at the German Research Foundation and the Collaborative Research Center 1080. Agricola took the Habilitation in 2004 at the University of Greifswald in mathematics. In 2008, she was appointed full professor at Marburg University. From November 2014 until October 2018, she has been Dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She was president of the German Mathematical Society from 2021 to 2022.

Agricola is Editor-in-Chief of two academic journals in mathematics published by Springer Science+Business Media, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (since 2015) and Mathematische Semesterberichte (since 2021). She is an editor of the journal Communications in Mathematics published by De Gruyter.

As of September 2025, Agricola is chair of the Committee on Publishing of the International Mathematical Union.

Awards and honors In 2003, Ilka Agricola received the Medal of Honor of Charles University in Prague. In 2016, she was awarded the of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and German Rectors' Conference for excellence in teaching mathematics. She was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to differential geometry, in particular manifolds with special holonomy and on non-integrable geometric structures and for service to the mathematical community".

Selected publications Books . Translated from the 2001 German original by Andreas Nestke. . Translated from the 2005 German original by Philip G. Spain.

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