Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa is a geographer and senior researcher in the research department "Environmental Governance".

Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa

Abteilung
Umwelt-Governance

Funktion
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Fachrichtung
Geografie

Vita

Seit 01/2026 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Forschungsabteilung "Umwelt Governance"
04/2024-12/2025 Cluster of Excellence Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher
07/2015-12/2023 Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) , Germany
Senior Researcher / Principal Investigator, BlueUrban (SPP 1889 Sealevel Change and Society)
01/2015-06/2015 UNFCCC Secretartiat, Bonn, Germany
Carlo-Schmid Fellow
09/201-06/2015 University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
DPhil in Development Studies
01/2011-08/2011 National Youth Council, Singapore 
Programme Development Executive
05/2009-10/20009 CGIAR WorldFish Center Headquarters, Penang, West Malaysia
Junior Researcher, CGIAR-Canada Linkage Fund
09/2008-04/2009  University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE)
Researcher, Liberal Democratic Party, Oxford Regional Office, United Kingdom 
09/2007-09/2008 University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE)
MSc. in Environmental Geography 
09/2004-07/2007 Singapore and Alola Foundation & Cooperative Cafe Timor (CCT), Timor Leste 
Research Coordinator, Beyond Social Services
05/2000-08/2004 National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
BA (Honours) in Sociology, Anglophone literature, and Theatre Studies

Mitgliedschaften

  • 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)

Auszeichnungen

  • 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)