8th International Scientific Conference on Water
20-21 March 2025, Szarvas, Hungary
Keynote Speakers
Reinhard Nolz: Agricultural water management research from the lysimeter scale to the field scale
Reinhard Nolz, Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr., is a Privatdozent at the BOKU University in Vienna, Austria. He is affiliated with the Institute of Soil Physics and Rural Water Management. His research focuses on the optimization of irrigation strategies to increase water productivity in order to secure food production and to use and protect water resources sustainably. His main research areas include agricultural water management with a focus on irrigation and water productivity, soil water monitoring, crop water stress monitoring, crop growth and water balance modelling with a focus on water productivity, lysimetry (technology, data management, determination of water balance components), and environmental soil physics (evaporation, soil hydraulic properties).
Dr. Nolz is actively involved in teaching and coordinating courses and related to water management and engineering. He also participates in various scientific projects aimed at enhancing practical knowledge and interdisciplinary learning. He published his scientific results in top quality journals.
Additionally, he plays a significant role in the Lysimeter Research Group as managing director. This organization dedicated to advancing and promoting cooperation and scientific exchange among lysimeter researchers across Europe.
Tibor Bíró: Improving the water management of the Danube-Tisza Interfluve
Tibor Bíró is a professor at the Ludovika University of Public Service and head of the Institute for Environmental Sustainability. Between 2017 and 2024, he was Dean of the Faculty of Water Sciences at LUPS, formerly Dean and Deputy Rector of Károly Róbert College, and Dean of Szent István University. He is currently the University Project Director of the National Laboratory for Water Science and Water Safety.
He has 30 years of teaching experience as a university lecturer. He has been mainly involved in teaching subjects related to water management and environmental management. He is experienced in teaching almost the whole spectrum of water management, from hydrology, agricultural water management, and water resources management to water quality protection. His research interests include adaptive water management, environmental assessment, water quality management, and remote sensing.
Among others, he is a member of the Committee on Soil, Water Management, and Crop Production of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also the Vice-President of the Hungarian Hydrological Society and of the Scientific Council of the National Water Directorate General, and Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Interdepartmental Coordination Committee for Disaster Management.
During his work in the Hungarian scientific and professional committees, he participated in the solution and evaluation of important water management and environmental problems.
Dr. Patricia Ann Jaranilla-Sanchez is a licensed Agricultural Engineer, professor and UP Scientist in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM). She is also the chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Center for Water (IDSC-Water) in UPLB. She was awarded as one of the Outstanding Young Scientists by the DOST-National Science and Technology in 2019. In 2021, she was selected as one of the new members of National Panel of Technical Experts of the Climate Change Commission and Scientific Steering Committee of Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project of World Climate Research Program.
Dr. Sanchez earned her doctorate degree at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2011. She is currently doing research work on hydrology, flood and drought risks, climate resiliency, carrying capacity, water resources assessment, environmental and social safeguards, solar radiation management, vulnerability and risk assessments. Most of her local studies are for watersheds in rural uplands, rapidly urbanizing lowlands, coastal areas, and small islands facing water security challenges in the Philippines.
Previously, she was a Research Specialist in the International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) working on flood and drought risks. In her previous job as a Research Associate in the University of Tokyo, she was working on basin-scale hydrological modeling of floods and droughts in Asian (Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Mongolia) and African (Niger) basins. This entails incorporating observed, satellite and remote sensing information of both hydrological and meteorological parameters into the distributed hydrological model to quantitatively identify basin-scale impacts of extreme events using both past information, seasonal forecast information as well as future climate projections into the different basins focusing on how these projections can affect current local adaptation measures.
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Atila BEZDAN – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. Jovana BEZDAN – UNS FA (Serbia)
Prof. Dr. Boško BLAGOJEVIĆ – UNS FA (Serbia)
Prof. Dr. Károly BODNÁR – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Dr. Emese BOZÁNNÉ BÉKEFI – MATE AKI HAKI (Hungary)
Zsuzsanna BRLÁS-MOLNÁR – MATE AKI HAKI (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Florin CRISTA – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Branko ĆUPINA – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. Andrea FEHER – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Zoltán FUTÓ – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Mila GRAHOVAC – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. Katalin HANYECZ – MATE Szarvas Arboretum (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Adina HORABLAGA – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Florin IMBREA – ULST FA (Romania)
Mihály JANCSÓ – MATE KÖTI ÖVKI (Hungary)
Dr. Ildikó KOLOZSVÁRI – MATE KÖTI NTTI (Hungary)
Dr. Diana MARIN – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Raul PAŞCALĂU – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Luminița PÎRVULESCU – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Cosmin Alin POPESCU – ULST (Romania)
Dr. Piotr PRUS – PBS FAB (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Diana RABA – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Roman ROLBIECKI – PBS FAB (Poland)
Dr. Cosmin SĂLĂȘAN – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Virág Katalin SIPOS – MATE SZIC (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Laura ȘMULEAC – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Sorin STANCIU – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Milica VRANEŠEVIĆ – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. István WALTNER – MATE KÖTI VKT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Zoltán VEKERDY – MATE KÖTI VKT (Hungary)
Erzsébet CSENGERI – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Viktória TERHES – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Scientific Committee
Prof. Dr. Tabita ADAMOV – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Károly BARTA – University of Szeged (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Atila BEZDAN – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. Jovana BEZDAN – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. Tibor BÍRÓ – UPS Faculty of Water Sciences (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Boško BLAGOJEVIĆ – UNS FA (Serbia)
Prof. Dr. László BOZÓ – MATE KÖTI VKT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Károly BODNÁR – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Ioan BRAD – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Ramona CIOLAC – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Florin CRISTA – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Branko ĆUPINA – UNS FA (Serbia)
Prof. Dr. Jacek DŁUGOSZ – PBS FAB (Poland)
Dr. Zoltán FUTÓ – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Dr. Béla GOMBOS – MATE KÖTI ÖMT (Hungary)
Dr. Katalin HANYECZ – MATE Szarvas Arboretum (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Lajos HELYES – MATE DHK (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Adina HORABLAGA – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Ákos HORVÁTH – MATE AKI HT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Mila GRAHOVAC – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. Gergő GYALOG – MATE AKI HAKI (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Florin IMBREA – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Tiberiu IANCU – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Nurbek KHAMRAEV – Khorezm Mamun Academy (Uzbekistan)
Dr. Ágnes KUN – MATE KÖTI ÖVKI (Hungary)
Dr. Renata KUŚMIEREK-TOMASZEWSKA – PBS FAB (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Attila NAGY – University of Debrecen (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Éva LEHOCZKY – MATE KÖTI TT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Teodor Eugen MAN – UPT (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Erika MICHÉLI – MATE KÖTI TT (Hungary)
Dr. Raul PAŞCALĂU – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Elena PET – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Cosmin Alin POPESCU – ULST (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Gabriela POPESCU – ULST FMRT (Romania)
Dr. Piotr PRUS – PBS FAB (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Roman ROLBIECKI – PBS FAB (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Stanislaw ROLBIECKI – PBS FAB (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Ionel SAMFIRA – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Laura ȘMULEAC – ULST FA (Romania)
Prof. Dr. Szilárd SZABÓ – University of Debrecen (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Zoltán VEKERDY – MATE KÖTI VKT (Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Milica VRANEŠEVIĆ – UNS FA (Serbia)
Dr. István WALTNER – MATE KÖTI VKT (Hungary)