Aslı Arda works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Center for Private Governance (CEPRI). Her research fundamentally focuses on digitalization and decarbonization in shipping from a private law perspective. She formerly worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CEPRI from May 2020 and her project focused on the management and liability aspects of the commercial implementation of remotely-controlled and autonomous ships. Asli has an LLM in Maritime Law with distinction from the University of Exeter, UK, and she holds a PhD in Law from the same University, which she obtained in 2020. Aslı's primary fields of research are digitalization and decarbonization in shipping, contract law, shipping law (mainly dry shipping), autonomous and remotely controlled ships from a private law perspective, digitization and digitalization in law, commercial arbitration agreements, and insurance law.