Sándor Takács is a research fellow at the Institute of Horticultural Sciences. He has completed his PhD studies in 2019 in Doctural School of Plant Sciences. His research focuses on the optimal water supply of some selected vegetable species. His expertise lies in water stress measurements in horticultural plants, modelling the growth and water use of herbaceous plants and precision irrigation applications. Dr. Takács’s work contributes to questions of how the different stress levels affect some important phytonutrients or quality parameters of vegetable crops. Across his research, he uses instruments related to monitoring plant transpiration, leaf reflectance and photosynthetic activity. He authored and co-authored 22 research articles in high-quality scientific journals. He has won the prestigious Wolfgang Kessler research award awarded by the German-Hungarian Association under the patronage of the Hungarian Academy of Science.