Ali Shobeiri is a researcher, educator, and photographer. Since 2018, he has been working as an Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Radboud University 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. His recent books are: Oikography: Homemaking through Photography, co-edited (2025); 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), and Animation and Memory, co-edited (2020). His forthcoming books are Photography / Intensity / Measure (co-edited), Video Game & Memory (edited), and Aquatic Thinking: Buoyancy, Floating, Sinking (co-authored).

He has devised and taught a wide range of BA and 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.