Monika Hilker (born 24 March 1959 in Friesoythe, Germany)[1] is a biologist and a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin.

[2][3] She is also the speaker and director of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 973 "Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress".

She remained at the University of Göttingen to conduct research on pheromones that deter oviposition in moths, receiving her doctoral degree (Dr. rer.

in zoology and animal ecology at the University of Bayreuth in 1993, working with leaf beetles.

Hilker served as a member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) senate from 2003 to 2009.