• Financial Crime, compliance and risk
• EU Energy security and law
• Comparative counter-terrorism and societal security
• International trade and economic law
• Digital property and assets

Prof Dr Umut Turksen is a student centered and a business facing legal academic.

He is interested in the practical application of the law in innovation, societal security and development. He has provided consultancy and training to prestigious international businesses and government projects. This includes technical assistance programmes to multinational corporations (e.g. France Telecom, Orange, Wilmington Plc) and international organisations (e.g. NATO, OECD, CEPOL, EUROPOL, Commonwealth Environmental Investment Forum), professional development training to keystakeholders and to the EU funded projects (e.g. Secucities, MUTRAP III). In addition to his expertise in EU energy security & law, Prof Turksen has extensive knowledge of countering financial crimes (e.g. fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing) as well as publications in international trade, arbitration and investment.
His current research involves four different topics:
1) Use of artificial intelligence in tracking illicit financial flows; 
2) Impact of digital assests and non-fungible tokens;  
3) Solidarity in EU's external energy trade and security; and
4) Illicit trafficking of cultural goods and rare earth elements.

He is currently leading a EU H2020 project, TRACE, https://trace-illicit-money-flows.eu.

He welcomes PhD proposals in these areas in particular.