Sándor Beszédes is an associate professor at the Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Szeged (Hungary), where he also serves as vice dean for international and public relations. He obtained his BSc degree in Food Engineering (2002), BSc degree as a Teacher of Engineering in 2004, and his MSc in Agricultural Environmental Management Engineering (2006) . He received his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Szeged in 2014 and completed his habilitation in 2024. His research focuses on environmental and food engineering, with particular emphasis on microwave-assisted sludge treatment, anaerobic digestion, biomass pretreatment, dielectric monitoring of biological systems. His scientific work contributes to the development of intensified and monitorable treatment technologies for biomass and food-processing by-products. He has published widely in the fields of environmental technology, water science, microwave processing and dielectric measurement. From 2026 he is the National Representative of Hungary for the ISEKI-Food Association. His teaching has been recognized with several awards (Outstanding Talent Developer, Young Educator of the Year); his research has been supported twice by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ János Bolyai Research Fellowship. He is also active in scientific reviewing and editorial service as IOP Trusted Reviewer and an MDPI Top 1000 Reviewer (2024).