Prof. Dr. Ilka Agricola

• 1973
  Born in The Hague, Netherlands
  
  

• 1991
  "Baccalauréat C à option internationale allemand" at the Lycée Jean Renoir in Munich, Germany
  
  

• 1996
  Diplom degree in physics at LMU Munich, Germany
  
  

• 1997
  Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
  
  

• 1997 – 2008
  Research associate in the Department of Mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany
  
  

• 2000
  Doctorate (summa cum laude), Humboldt University in Berlin
  
  

• 2001 – 2002
  On leave in order to work at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig) and at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Potsdam), Germany
  
  

• 2003 – 2008
  Head of the junior research group "Special geometries in mathematical physics" at Humboldt University in Berlin, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
  
  

• 2004
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification), University of Greifswald, Germany
  
  

• 2005 – 2008
  Principle Investigator in the newly founded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 647 "Space – Time – Matter" (Humboldt University)
  
  

• 2008
  Offer of a professorship at KU Leuven (Belgium) and also W3 professorships at Marburg University and the University of Bremen (Germany)
  
  

• Since 2008
  W3 professor of mathematics at Marburg University
  
  

• Since 2013
  Vice dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
  
  

• Ilka Agricola, Julia Becker-Bender, Hwajeong Kim, "Twistorial eigenvalue estimates for generalized Dirac operators with torsion", Adv. Math. 243 (2013), 296-329.

• Ilka Agricola, Thomas Friedrich, "A note on flat metric connections with antisymmetric torsion", Diff. Geom. Appl. 28 (2010), 480-487.

• Ilka Agricola, "Old and New on the exceptional Lie group G_2", Notices of the AMS 55 (2008), 922-929.

• Ilka Agricola and Thomas Friedrich, "On the holonomy of connections with skew-symmetric torsion", Math. Ann. 328 (2004), 711-748.

• Ilka Agricola, "Connections on naturally reductive spaces, their Dirac operator and homogeneous models in string theory", Comm. Math. Phys. 232 (2003) 3, 535-563.

Books:

• Ilka Agricola, "The Srní lectures on non-integrable geometries with torsion", with an appendix by Mario Kassuba. Arch. Math. 42 (2006), 5-84.

• Ilka Agricola und Thomas Friedrich, "Vektoranalysis – Differentialformen in Analysis, Geometrie und Physik", 2. Auflage. Vieweg-Verlag, März 2010.

• Ilka Agricola und Thomas Friedrich, "Elementargeometrie",

  2., erweiterte und ergänzte Auflage. Vieweg-Verlag, Oktober 2008.

• Head of the Mathematical Model Collection in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Marburg University; see http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/modellsammlung/index_html

• Editor of "Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry" and "Communications in Mathematics"

• Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Union of German Mathematicians (DMV) and European Women in Mathematics (EWM)

Other activities and achievements/family

• Married with one son

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