In 1992, he obtained a postgraduate diploma from the Netherlands International Institute for Management.

Chaibi completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Agriculture and Climate Technologies at the same university in 2003, before returning to Tunisia in 2005, and hablitate in Environmental Sciences at the Institution for Agricultural Research and High Education.

He is currently a professor and a director of research at the INRGREF and a member of the editorial board of Resources and Environment.

[5] Chaibi research focuses on solar thermal processes,[6] solar desalination,[7] energy systems analysis,[8] climate technologies,[9] and water resources engineering.

[3] He was a member of the Governing Council of the African Academy of Sciences (North Africa Region) in 2010.