Nisrine Chaer is currently a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Utrecht University whose research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, migration studies, transgender studies, and Middle East studies. Chaer's PhD research primarily focuses on respectability, hypervisibility and safety with a focus on trans and queer migration in both the Netherlands and Lebanon. This NWO-funded project is supervised by prof. dr. Berteke Waaldijk and dr. Layal Ftouni. Chaer also teaches courses in Gender Studies at Utrecht University. 

Previously, Chaer graduated from the Gender & Ethnicity Master’s at Utrecht University and wrote a thesis on queer activism in Beirut based on methodologies at the crossroads of cultural studies and ethnography. Chaer also worked at Radboud University on an anthropological research on trauma and memory among Syrian refugees in the Netherlands.

Chaer's work has appeared in Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research (2015), Global Dialogue (2016), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019), ZemZem (2020), Women Rising: Resistance, Revolution, and Reform in the Arab Spring and Beyond (NYU Press, 2020), Crisis Magazine (2022), Transcultural Psychiatry (2023), Journal of Refugee Studies (2023), UntoldMag (2023) and The Queer Arab Glossary (Saqi Books, 2024).