Ensar Aslan is a visiting student at the University of Cambridge, where he undertakes a period of research under the supervision of Dr Frank Tietze from the Department of Engineering. His research focuses on how new technologies can change and define the way intellectual property is handled in industrial companies. He is interested in the implementation of distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain in the value chain of intellectual property.

Ensar is in the final year of his master's degree in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. In addition, he is completing a second bachelor's degree in Materials Science, also at RWTH Aachen.