Blagoy Burdin is an Associate Professor and researcher at the Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEES-BAS), based in Sofia. He lectures doctoral students on the application of batteries, fuel cells, and electrolysers in the energy and transport sectors, and is a member of the Electrochemical Methods department at IEES-BAS, where his research spans electrochemical energy systems, impedance analysis, and solid oxide fuel cells.
He heads Laboratory 6 — Integrated Energy Systems — within the HITMOBIL Centre of Competence project, the largest and most sophisticated laboratory within the project, designed to enable research at pre-industrial scales and a strong science-business link. It includes a photovoltaic park, a wind generator emulator, and facilities for storing renewable energy both in various types of batteries and as hydrogen.
At the "Science for Business" forum in June 2025, Burdin presented the laboratory's extensive capabilities for real-environment research on combined electricity generation from solar and wind sources, storage of renewable energy in battery systems and hydrogen produced by a semi-industrial electrolyser, energy balancing within the electrical grid, and fuelling hydrogen electric vehicles via an operational charging station. He has been a prominent public voice on hydrogen mobility in Bulgaria, explaining that hydrogen vehicles need only four to five minutes to charge and can cover over 500 km, and predicting that hydrogen vehicles should become widely used by 2031, in line with EU infrastructure requirements.