CBI Pro-Akademia

Dr. Sergii Bespalko graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Cherkasy State Technological University (Ukraine) in 2003. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in Thermal Physics and Industrial Heat-and-Power Engineering from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". Since 2010, he has held the position of Associate Professor (Docent) in the Department of Energy Technologies at Cherkasy State Technological University, where he contributed to several nationally funded research projects in thermal-fluid engineering.

Since 2011, Dr. Bespalko has been a member of the Anhalt Academy for Energy and Environment e.V. (Germany), contributing to international educational initiatives in renewable energy and environmental sciences. Since 2017, he has also served on the Scientific Council of the journal Acta Innovations published by the Research and Innovation Centre (RIC) Pro-Akademia (Poland).

His research on plasma electrolysis has gained international recognition through two Seal of Excellence awards from the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Horizon 2020) program, awarded in 2018 and 2020 to research proposals evaluated as meeting the highest standards of scientific excellence. In 2020, he was awarded a prestigious NAWA Ulam Program – Seal of Excellence fellowship, enabling him to join the Research and Innovation Centre Pro-Akademia (Poland), where he initiated the PLASMAHYDROGEN project on hydrogen production by plasma-driven solution electrolysis.

In 2022, Dr. Bespalko established an international research collaboration between RIC Pro-Akademia (Poland) and the German University of Technology (GUTech) in Oman. This initiative led to the WASTE4H2 project, jointly funded by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) and GUTech under the INNOGLOBO program. The project demonstrated the feasibility of combining plasma-driven solution electrolysis with renewable energy for the simultaneous treatment of hypersaline produced water and hydrogen co-production.

Building upon these achievements, he currently serves as Principal Investigator of the international ACE-WATER project, co-funded by the European Union through the WATER4ALL Partnership. The project brings together research teams from Poland, Italy, Hungary, and Denmark to investigate next-generation plasma-based technologies for the simultaneous treatment of textile and tannery wastewater, hydrogen production, desalination, and recovery of critical raw materials.

Dr. Bespalko is establishing a new research direction at the interface of plasma physics, electrochemistry, acoustics, and interfacial science. His research aims to uncover the fundamental principles governing electrified plasma–liquid interphases beyond the classical electrochemical double layer, where plasma formation, charge transfer, cavitation, heat transfer, and multiphase transport interact across multiple temporal and spatial scales. As the main author of the CombiSonoPlasma® concept, he develops unique experimental platforms that enable this complex coupled phenomena to be investigated under precisely controlled conditions. His long-term ambition is to build a predictive scientific framework for plasma–liquid systems that will reshape the understanding of electrified interfaces and inspire entirely new concepts in reaction engineering.