Ali Huseyinoglu was born in Komotini, Greece. After completing primary education at the bilingual (Turkish and Greek) school in his hometown, he continued secondary and higher education in Istanbul and Ankara. Huseyinoglu received his BA and MSc from the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University (METU) and PhD in International Relations from the University of Sussex. Since 2020, he has been working as an Associate Professor in the Balkan Research Institute at Trakya University, in Edirne, Türkiye. His main research interests include human rights, minority issues, migration studies, Turkish-Greek relations and the Muslim Turkish minority of Western Thrace in Greece.