Contact
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewski@eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
2019 to present | Senior Scientist / ERC Research Group Leader Department of Human Behaviour, Ecology and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany |
2015 to 2019 | Research Group Leader: Gene-culture Coevolution Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution & Department of Archaeogenetics Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Jena, Germany |
2013 to 2015 | Postdoctoral Research Associate Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany |
2010 to 2012 | Postdoctoral Research Associate UCL Genetics Institute, University College London (UCL), UK |
2006 to 2010 | PhD in Population genetics “Demography and the evolution of genetic and cultural variation” Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE), University College London (UCL), London, UK |
1999 to 2003 | BSc in Mathematics (Honours) University of Exeter, Exeter, UK |
GRANTS & AWARDS
2018 | Waves of history in the South Pacific: A gene-culture coevolutionary approach. European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (758967), PI, €1,500,000 |
2018 | INTERACT: Human interactions during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Europe: The dual perspectives of cultural and biological exchanges. ANR-DFG, PIs Marie-France Deguilloux & Dr Wolfgang Haak, co-investigator, €671,562 |
2018 | Waves of Change: Human migration and adaptation in prehistoric Indonesia. Marsden Fund, New Zealand (18-UOO-135), PI Dr Rebecca Kinaston, associate investigator, NZD 300,000 |
2018 | Em busca de pegadas invisíveis: para um modelo multidisciplinar de difusão das línguas Khoe-Kwadi e do pastoralismo na África Austral. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (29273), PI Jorge Rocha, co-investigator, €237,464 |
2010 | 1st prize award, Postgraduate Symposium, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL |
2006 | 4-year PhD studentship, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, UCL |