Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa
Department
Environmental Governance
Function
Senior Researcher
Specialization
Geography
Vita
| Since 1/2026 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Senior Researcher in the research department "Environmental Governance" |
| 4/2024-12/2025 | Cluster of Excellence Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany Postdoctoral researcher |
| 7/2015-12/2023 | Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) , Germany Senior Researcher / Principal Investigator, BlueUrban (SPP 1889 Sealevel Change and Society) |
| 1/2015-6/2015 | UNFCCC Secretartiat, Bonn, Germany Carlo-Schmid Fellow |
| 9/2011-6/2015 | University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF) DPhil in Development Studies |
| 1/2011-8/2011 | National Youth Council, Singapore Programme Development Executive |
| 5/2009-10/20009 | CGIAR WorldFish Center Headquarters, Penang, West Malaysia Junior Researcher, CGIAR-Canada Linkage Fund |
| 9/2008-4/2009 | University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) Researcher, Liberal Democratic Party, Oxford Regional Office, United Kingdom |
| 9/2007-9/2008 | University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) MSc. in Environmental Geography |
| 9/2004-7/2007 | Singapore and Alola Foundation & Cooperative Cafe Timor (CCT), Timor Leste Research Coordinator, Beyond Social Services |
| 5/2000-8/2004 | National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology and Anthropology BA (Honours) in Sociology, Anglophone literature, and Theatre Studies |
Member of
- International Sociological Association (ISA), Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty Group (SoRU)
- Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)
- The Southern Collective, co-PI (SSRC Transregional Collaboratories on the Indian Ocean)
Awards
- Carlo-Schmid Fellowship, UNFCCC, Germany (2015)
- Foundation Fiat Panis Doctoral Fellowship, Germany (2012-2013)
- DAAD Doctoral Fellowship, Germany (2011-2015)
- Wolfson College Field Grant, Oxford, UK (2008)
- Social Change Fellowship, Clark University, USA (2007)