Elisabeth Riahi completed her bachelor's degree in art history and media and communication studies at the University of Hamburg. She graduated in 2020 with a thesis on the conceptual planning and aesthetic realization of Albert Renger-Patzsch's photographs of technology and machinery for the Werkbund book "Eisen und Stahl".
In the following summer term, she began her master's degree in art history at the Ruhr-University Bochum and has been continuing her studies at the University of Hamburg since the winter term 2021. Since November 2022, she is working as a student assistant at the DFG-CAS "Imaginaria of Force".