George Profitiliotis

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 elicit over 90 future ethical, legal, and societal implications of quantum technologies. At NIOO, George is working as a PostDoc researcher on the "SPARKLES: SPARKing a nature-positive future of floating solar for humans and nature across LandscapES" project. 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, the SETI Post-Detection Hub, and the Panel on Social Sciences and Humanities of the Committee on Space Research.

He has previously worked with the Quantum Delta NL Centre for Quantum & Society, TU Delft, UNDP, the National Technical University of Athens, the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, the UNESCO Chair on Futures Research in Greece, the Hellenic National Commission on Bioethics and Technoethics, the Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster) of the Corallia Clusters Initiative, 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.