Before the war, Serhii Nadobko served as Dean of the Faculty of Audio-Visual Arts and Distance Learning in Kharkiv. He has served as Head of Legal Services at Kharkiv State Academy Design and Art, where he also worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. He holds a PhD in law from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University with a focus on administrative law and process, financial law, and information law. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law.