Dr. Eda Elif Tibet is an award winning documentary filmmaker and two times Swiss National Science Foundation fellow; first for her PhD in Social Anthropology, UniBern (2019) and now as an advanced post doc at the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern as part of an EU BIODIVERSA+ funded consortia project Bridging Values. She currently serves as an executive board member of the Swiss Young Academy (SYA) and has been elected as the Co-President of the Swiss Anthropology Association's Interface Commission for Engaged Anthropologists.
 
Dr.Tibet formerly holds a post doc fellowship from the Institute of Geography (GIUB) at the University of Bern and the University of Oxford as an Enacting Global Transformation Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (DPIR) where she also thought at the Global Environments Summer Academy. She currently teaches at GIUB "Research Beyond Communication" and "Freeing Epistemologies" as part of the Critical Sustainability Unit.

Her transdisciplinary and applied research initiative such as Animating the Commons bridge the gap between science and the arts, focusing on a wide range of global practices and common resources. She operates at the intersection of environmental humanities, interdisciplinary engaged conservation science, multimodal and visual anthropology that brings theory and practice together. 

In her various capacities as an advisor, consultant and leader; Dr. Tibet aims to create unconventional coalitions and alliances among various stakeholders, foundations, NGOs, private and public institutions. Her work supports local communities, Indigenous Peoples, change-makers, social innovators, and scientists collaborating for the common good. She advocates for emancipatory discourses through constructive storytelling through various multimodal medias (Film festival, ethnographic films, short films, exhibitions, radio show, TV Show, Podcasts, audiovisual installations, music videos and theatre).

She works to bridge narratives around solutions to complex global challenges and increase visibility through award-winning ethnographic documentary films, media campaigns, and co-creative gatherings. She has a particular keen focus on the commons, mobility justice, mountain communities, rituals, festivals, ethnographic filmmaking, indigenous knowledge systems, sustainability transformations, systems change and action research. Tibet has a wide global focus with vast field work experiences in the Mediterranean, Middle East, North Africa, Asia, South East Asia and currently South Americas.

Since 2020, Dr. Tibet has founded the international EthnoKino Film Festival in Bern, Switzerland, which has gained world wide acclaim and expanded to Meiringen, Berlin, Mexico City, Patagonia,Marrakech, Leh Ladakh, Chandigarh India and Cappadocia. Dr.Tibet is dedicated to building capacity and co-creating transformative spaces via events and gatherings that foster deep dialogue, social cohesion, and emancipation. She has developed the Doc Impact Lab for Mov(i)ement Fellows to transfer her experiences and mobilize a worldwide cohort of storytellers and filmmakers across more then forty nations participating ( ImagiNATION films).

She also anchors the first contemporary visual anthropology TV program in Turkey called Antropolojik at Habitat TV, reaching 30 million people nationwide.