George holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, acquired at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During his undergraduate studies, he obtained a broad interest in the field of Evolution and gained experience in molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics. Presently, George is in his second year of Master studies in the Mundus Erasmus Master in Evolutionary Biology (MEME) Program. Being also fascinated by the evolution of perception and the senses, he carried out his first Master thesis at Ludwig Maxmilian University of Munich, on 3D reconstructions of vision-related structures in the European anchovy retina. At Harvard, George will be working on wild-bird pangenomes, trying to examine different types of genomic variation of various gene families at the population level, a collaboration with Uppsala University.