Jacqueline Ramagge

Jacqui Ramagge is an English-Australian mathematician. She is Deputy Vice Chancellor at James Cook University. She was previously the executive dean of STEM at the University of South Australia.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and was the President of the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) from 2019 to 2020.

Early life and education Ramagge was born in London into a family of Spanish immigrants. Consequently, her first language is Spanish and her native language is English. Her school years were spent first at Hallfield Primary School and later at Holland Park Comprehensive School. Until the age of 18 all her summers were spent in a village in northern Spain. Ramagge was the first person in her family to go to university. During her PhD, Ramagge won the 1993 B. H. Neumann Prize for the most outstanding talk presented by a student at the Annual Meeting of the AustMS.

Academic career From 1993 to 2007, Ramagge worked as an academic at the University of Newcastle. In 2005, she was the Assistant Dean of Marketing and Recruitment in the Faculty of Science and IT

From 2007 to 2015, Ramagge was an academic at the University of Wollongong. She was Director of the Australian Mathematical Science Institute Summer School held there over the summer of 2008—2009 and served as the Head of School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics 2009–2015. the first having been Professor Nalini Joshi. Ramagge was Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics from 2016–2019.

After a stint as executive dean of science at Durham University in the UK, Ramagge became executive dean of STEM at the University of South Australia in 2023.

Research interests Ramagge’s research interests overlap algebra, analysis and geometry. Her current major projects focus on the general structure theory of totally disconnected, locally compact groups; and operator algebras.

Selected publications

A tribute to C. S. Seshadri (Chennai, 2002), 428–466, Trends Math., Birkhäuser, Basel. Ramagge, J.; Robertson, G.; Steger, T. A Haagerup inequality for A˜1×A˜1 and A˜2 buildings. Geom. Funct. Anal. 8 (1998), no. 4, 702–731.

Awards, honours and memberships Ramagge became a Fellow of AustMS in 2014, having been closely involved with the Society since 1992. She was President Elect in 2018, President 2019–2020, and Immediate Past President in 2021 , continuing to serve as President after her return to the UK in 2020.

Ramagge has also held the following memberships and leadership roles: Judge on the Committee for the AustMS B. H. Neumann Prize (1995–2005), seven times as Chair