Kenan Aslanli is a faculty member at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU), Department of International Relations. He works as an expert on the energy and political economy of the wider Eurasian powers at the Center for Iranian Studies (IRAM) in Turkey. He graduated from the doctorate programme at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of International Relations (English), in 2022. He was a project partner and researcher at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Bremen (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) and a visiting lecturer at the Vienna BFI University of Applied Sciences (Austria).