Agricola studied
physics at the
Technical University of Munich and the
University of Munich from 1991 to 1996. From 2003 to 2008, she led one of the
Volkswagen Foundation funded research groups at Humboldt University 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 the
University of Marburg. 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 for 2021–2022. 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==