Dr. László Balázs - MATE Research
Overview
Since 2022, Dr. László Balázs has been leveraging his 21 years of experience gained in the lighting industry to develop indoor farming technologies. His research at the Institute of Agronomy focuses on optimizing the intensity and spectral distribution of the lighting environment in vertical farms. László Balázs has authored more than 80 scientific publications and holds 10 patents and 1 patent application. He is an official member of Division 6: Photobiology and Photochemistry of the International Commission on Illumination, and the vice president of the Hungarian Lighting Society. He is the organizer of interdisciplinary conferences, including the AgroLight Forum.
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Publications
Light response
Huynh, K. A., Jolánkai, M., Kassai, M. K., Kovács, G. P., Gyuricza, C., & Balázs, L. (2025). Influence of Light Intensity and Nutrient Concentration on Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) Seedling Growth. Agronomy, 15(5), 1037. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15051037
Balázs, L., Kovács, G. P., Gyuricza, C., Piroska, P., Tarnawa, Á., & Kende, Z. (2023). Quantifying the Effect of Light Intensity Uniformity on the Crop Yield by Pea Microgreens Growth Experiments. Horticulturae, 9(11), 1187. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9111187
Balázs, L., Dombi, Z., Csambalik, L., & Sipos, L. (2022). Characterizing the Spatial Uniformity of Light Intensity and Spectrum for Indoor Crop Production. Horticulturae, 8(7), 644. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8070644
Photon irradiance uniformity
Sipos, L., Boros, I. F., Csambalik, L., Székely, G., Jung, A., & Balázs, L. (2020). Horticultural lighting system optimalization: A review. Scientia Horticulturae, 273, 109631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2020.109631
Pimentel, J., Balázs, L., & Friedler, F. (2023). Optimization of vertical farms energy efficiency via multiperiodic graph-theoretical approach. Journal of cleaner production, 416, 137938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137938
Balázs, L., Dombi, Z., Csalambik, L. and Sipos, L. (2023). Characterization and optimization of photon irradiance distribution in vertical farms. Acta Hortic. 1369, 149-156 https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2023.1369.18
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