Dr George Profitiliotis is an electrical & computer engineer, further trained in interdisciplinary environmental studies, biomimetics, and strategic innovation management, and holds a PhD on the application of environmental economics to planetary protection policy. He has worked extensively in the fields of strategic foresight, futures literacy, and futures studies. During his 1st PostDoc, he studied the pertinence of anticipation to the search for extraterrestrial life from the viewpoints of particular subfields of the humanities, social sciences, and policy, with a focus on the proactive management of a future discovery. His 2nd PostDoc utilized strategic foresight to produce 4 scenarios and a vision for the Futures of Quantum Networks in 2050 and to elicit over 90 future ethical, legal, and societal implications of quantum technologies. He is currently working as a PostDoc researcher on nature-positive futures of floating solar power at NIOO-KNAW. George is also an active member of several scientific organizations working on interdisciplinary aspects of space exploration and astrobiology, including the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science and the SETI Post-Detection Hub.

Among other organizations, he has previously worked with the Quantum Delta NL Centre for Quantum & Society, the United Nations Development Programme, the COSPAR Panel on Social Sciences and Humanities, the UNESCO Chair on Futures Research in Greece, the Hellenic National Commission on Bioethics and Technoethics, the Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster, the Greek Chapter of the National Space Society, which he co-founded as the Director of Research & Education, and the Quanta & Qualia deeptech startup, as the originator of the Magnetic Gesture Observation System (MaGOS) business idea. Throughout his career, George has received numerous honors, awards, prizes, scholarships, and distinctions in the fields of space exploration, general academic excellence, innovation & entrepreneurship, and literature, as he is also a published speculative fiction author in Greece serving the New Weird.