István Valánszki, PhD, head of department, associate professor, landscape architect, teacher of engineering, landscape protection expert at Department of Landscape Protection and Reclamation, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sceinces. He has been involved in several national and international projects and author of more than 200 publications, mainly related to ppGIS, cultural ecosystem services and GI. István has also international research and work experiences (e.g. University of Copenhagen, Denmark; University of Massachusetts, USA; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany; The James Hutton Institute, Scotland; Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway; Vienna University of Technology, Austria). In addition to national awards, in 2017 he received the “Outstanding 3rd Cycle – doctoral student 2017” Award of the ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools).