Charles Heller is SNF Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Bern where he is leading the "Circumference of Violence research" SNF Starting Grant project (2024-2028) and Director of Research within the Border Forensics investigation agency. He is further affiliated to the University of Bristol as Research Associate. He is a board member of the Mobility & Politics book series and was co-president of the Migreurop network between 2019-2023. Charles is a transdisciplinary researcher, filmmaker and human rights activist whose work has a long-standing focus on the politics of migration, borders, mediation and the law within and at the borders of Europe. His research draws on the disciplines of anthropology and geography, but also on arts and architecture-based methodologies, and engages with the study of politics and the law across disciplines. Charles is a Salzburg Global Fellow.