Born in Ankara in 1978, Ali Ayata completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Vienna in Austria between 1997 and 2008. He was appointed associate professor in the field of International Relations in 2013 and professor in 2018. His academic work focuses primarily on Turkish foreign policy, security, terrorism, the European Union, and Western and US policies in the Middle East. He has published articles and books in English, German, and Turkish in various scientific journals both in Turkiye and abroad in these fields. He currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University.