Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University (NL), where he teaches BA/MA courses and supervises MA/PhD students at the departments of Media Studies and Art History. Before joining Leiden University, he worked as a lecturer of Cultural Studies at Radboud University of Nijmegen (2017-2018).

As an academic, he is interested in interdisciplinary theoretical research at the intersection of photography, philosophy, aesthetics, and placial studies. His recent book are: Virtual Photography: Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality co-edited (2024); Psychosomatic Imagery: Photographic Reflections on Mental Disorders, co-edited (2023); Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography, monograph (2021); Animation and Memory, co-edited (2020), and Oikography: Homemaking through Photography co-edited (forthcoming).