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 Lecturer of Cultural Studies at Radboud University of Nijmegen (2017-2019) and Instructor of Photography Theories at Royal Academy of Art The Hague (2018-2019). Occasionally, he has also been co-supervising practice-based artistic research at PhDArts (2019-present). 

As a researcher, he is interested in interdisciplinary theoretical research at the intersections of visual and material culture, philosophy and aesthetics, and geography and photography. His recent books 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).

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