Mihály Jancsó is a research fellow at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Research Center for Irrigation and Water Management (MATE IES ÖVKI). He is the head of the Department of Irrigation Management. He graduated from Szent István University (Hungary) with a master’s degree in agricultural engineering with a specialization in genetics and plant breeding in 2004. His PhD studies were in the field of plant biotechnology and breeding. He has 20 years of experience in research and breeding. His fields of research are the biotic stress tolerance of crop plants and lysimetry. He has a wide international scientific network in the field of irrigation and rice research. He is the leading breeder of two rice varieties and is an authors of 18 Scopus-indexed scientific papers.