Mr. Georgios Giannopoulos holds a degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, a PhD in Engineering from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Royal Military Academy of Belgium and a Management degree from Solvay Brussels School in Economics and Management.
He is currently the Head of the Technologies for Space, Security and Connectivity Unit working on security related topics such as critical infrastructure risk and resilience, CBRNE Hybrid Threats, Galileo and 5G applications and he is also the Deputy Director of the Space, Security and Migration Directorate at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
He is the author of more than 50 publications and book chapters and he has trained officials in several European countries in order to support their efforts on improving the protection of their technological systems and critical infrastructures as well as countering Hybrid Threats.