Valerii Malichenko

In 2025, he graduated from Dnipro University of Technology and obtained a Master's degree in Environmental Protection Technologies.

In 2025, he worked as a Chemical Safety and Chemical Product Management Consultant at INTERPIPE UKRAINE, a metallurgical company.

From 2025 to 2026, he worked as an Environmental Engineer at CERN Consulting Company, where he was involved in the development and support of environmental documentation.

His current research interests include phytoremediation of degraded and disturbed lands using composite bio-briquettes produced from coffee waste; investigation of the effectiveness of coffee waste in improving soil properties and stimulating the growth of phytoremediation plants; and technologies for land reclamation and ecological restoration.

In October 2026, he enrolled in the PhD program at Dnipro University of Technology, majoring in Environmental Protection Technologies. The topic of his dissertation research is: «Development of a Phytoremediation Technology for Degraded Soils Using Composite Bio-Briquettes Based on Spent Coffee Grounds».

Contact information:

e-mail: Malichenko.val.v@nmu.one

Research profiles:

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9416-4020

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dSLiAOYAAAAJ&hl=uk

List of selected publications:

04.03.2026 – 27.04.2026

Grant for participation in the international project “Lab2Market AgroTech”, an adapted entrepreneurial training program for researchers, inventors, and scientists for commercialization of scientific research results in agricultural technologies. Organized by Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (UANIPIO). Personal oral presentation: “Coffee waste for reclamation of degraded and war-damaged lands”.

Kovrov, O., Koveria, A., Shemet, V., Ovcharenko, A., Cherdantseva, K., Panteleieva, O., & Malichenko, V. (2026). Ecological assessment of soil quality affected by the Shahed-136 drone strike: Case study in Kirovograd region, Ukraine. Sustainable Environment, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/27658511.2026.2615531

Malichenko V. Coffee waste for reclamation and restoration of degraded lands: conference abstracts. III Scientific and Practical Conference “International Forum: Safe, Comfortable and Capable Territorial Community”, October 15–17. Dnipro, 2025. forum_2025_program

O. Kovrov, V. Malichenko, D. Kulikova, Yu. Buchavyi. (2025). Investigation of the spent coffee ground applicability for land phytoremediation via biotesting techniques.  IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 1481 012001. DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1481/1/012001

Kovrov, O. S., Malichenko, V. V., Kulikova, D. V., Buchavyi, Y. V., & Gruntova, V. Y. (2023). Study of the prospects of using composite briquettes from coffee waste for phytoremediation technologies of degraded lands. Collection of Scientific Works of Dnipro University of Technology. Series: Environment Protection Technologies, 76, 283–291. https://doi.org/10.33271/crpnmu/76.283

Malichenko, V. V. (2023). Analysis of the current experience of using coffee waste in Ukraine. In Youth: Science and Innovation. Proceedings of the 11th International Scientific and Technical Conference of Students, Postgraduates, and Young Scientists (Vol. 1, pp. 300–301). Dnipro: National Technical University “Dnipro Polytechnic”. content