Ahmet Arda Şensoy is pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Nottingham. Şensoy completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul Commerce University in 2015 and earned his master's degree in 2018 with a thesis titled “Russia's Hybrid Warfare Strategy and the Syrian Example.” His areas of research include the Syrian civil war, proxy warfare, military strategy, and Middle Eastern politics. He works as a researcher at the Türkiye Research Foundation.