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 books are Photography / Intensity / Measure (co-edited) and Aquatic Thinking (co-authored)

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