Ali Shobeiri is a researcher, educator, and photographer. Since 2018 he has been working as Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Radboud University of Nijmegen (2017-2018) and as an Instructor of Photography Theories at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2018). Occasionally, he has also been co-supervising practice-based artistic research at PhDArts (2019-present). 

He is interested in interdisciplinary theoretical research at the intersections of visual and material culture, philosophy and aesthetics, and geography and photography. Recent books are: Oikography, co-edited (2025); Virtual Photography, co-edited (2024); Psychosomatic Imagery, co-edited (2023); Place, monograph (2021); and Animation and Memory, co-edited (2020). His upcoming co-edited book is Photography / Intensity / Measure. 

He has devised and taught a wide range of BA&MA courses at Media and Cultural Studies programs. Next to teaching, he has supervised MA theses at Film and Photographic Studies and PhD candidates at The Graduate School of Humanities.