Biography:Sibylle Schroll

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Short description: German mathematician

Sibylle Schroll is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cologne in Germany.[1] She specializes in representation theory, and is an editor-in-chief of the Annals of Representation Theory.[2]

Education and career

Schroll grew up near Stuttgart in Germany, and moved to France for her undergraduate education.[3] She obtained her doctorate through Sorbonne Paris North University in France in 2003. Her dissertation, On Alvis-Curtis duality and general linear groups, was jointly supervised by Michel Broué and Markus Linckelmann.[4]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, she became a research fellow at the University of Leicester, both in England. She stayed on at Leicester as a member of the academic staff and eventually as a professor. She returned to Germany as a professor at the University of Cologne in 2021. Soon afterward, she also took an adjunct professorship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[3]

Recognition

Schroll is an invited speaker at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians.[5]

References

  1. "Prof. Dr. Sibylle Schroll", Staff (University of Cologne Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Division of Mathematics), https://math.uni-koeln.de/en/department/personen/professuren-arbeitsgruppen/ag-schroll, retrieved 2026-04-08 
  2. "Editorial team", Annals of Representation Theory (Centre Mersenne), https://art.centre-mersenne.org/page/editorial-team_en/, retrieved 2026-04-08 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Sibylle Schroll", IDUN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2022, p. 21, https://www.ntnu.edu/documents/1284037637/1295932873/booklet.pdf, retrieved 2026-04-08 
  4. Sibylle Schroll at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Speakers", ICM 2026 (International Mathematical Union), https://www.icm2026.org/event/ac193975-5d24-4628-8c30-ddb23de19a8b/speakers, retrieved 2026-04-08