Diane Maclagan

I am a Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick. Prior to coming to Warwick I spent three years in the Mathematics Department at Rutgers University. I have also spent time at Stanford and the Institute for Advanced Study. I was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, where my advisor was Bernd Sturmfels.


  • E-mail: D.Maclagan at warwick dot ac dot uk
  • Office: C2.26 Zeeman Building
  • Phone: +44 (0)24 765 28333
  • Fax: +44 (0)24 765 24182
  • Address:

    Mathematics Institute,
    University of Warwick
    Coventry, CV4 7AL
    United Kingdom.


Research: My research is in combinatorial and computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, with emphasis on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry.

My research is supported by EPSRC.

Interested in a summer research programme, and an undergraduate from a group underrepresented in maths? Apply to the Warwick programme for this summer!.

Seminars and conferences: Warwick Algebraic Geometry / Computational Algebraic Geometry Research Network / BIRS workshop on Combinatorics and Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Curves/ British Algebraic Geometry Meeting (BRAG) / Other Warwick seminars / Other conferences/seminars

Teaching: In Term 1 (2023/24) I am teaching MA3G6 Commutative Algebra. Information about older courses is available here.