Dr. Tsirha Kidist Adefris is a paleoanthropologist who completed her Phd dissertation with the description of The Bodo Hominid Cranium from the Afar depression, Ethiopia.

Tsirha has taught ten years at Addis Ababa University while participating in the study of the Awash baboons hybrid zone.

Tsirha has recently obtained an MA in curriculum and instructions and continues to teach Anthropology as an adjunct professor.