Team
The Circumference of Violence project is led by Border Forensics and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The research team brings together legal scholars, spatial investigators, and civil society practitioners working across the case study regions.
Prof. Dr. Charles Heller
Project Lead
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.heller@unibe.ch