Tsypylma Darieva is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at ZOiS) where she heads the Migration and Diversity research cluster. Her research interests include the anthropology of migration, mobilisation of transnational diasporas, urban cultures, and governance of ethno-religious diversity in Eurasian societies. She is a co-founder of the ZOiS Caucasus Network and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jena-Cauc project Resilience in the South Caucasus (2020–26, FSU Jena). Before coming to ZOiS, she was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and research associate at FSU Jena, at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle).Tsypylma Darieva teaches in the department of Transregional Central Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2022, she has been a member of the ZOiS Ethics Committee.

• Migration and Diversity​​​​​​​

• Transformation of Urban Spaces and Religious Pluralisation in the Caucasus 
• Political Migration from Russia

• Emerging Russian Diasporas and Anti-war Movements (ERDAM)
• ​​​​​​​Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic, and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War (KonKoop)

• Homeland Pilgrimage: Roots and Routes of Transnational Diasporic Engagement
• Project to Initiate Research and Cooperation between EU and Eastern Partnership countries (RemitEU)