Giorgos Giannopoulos received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2006 and his PhD in Computer Science from NTUA in 2013. Since 2013 he has collaborated as a Research Associate with Athena Research and Innovation Center, the National Observatory of Athens, the University of Athens, the National Centre for Social Research and the University of the Peloponnese. He has also served as an external expert for the European Data Protection Board and the Greek Data Protection Authority. Since 2026 he is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens. His current research focuses on adapting and extending AI techniques for Earth Observation problems and applications.

Adaptation and extension of Machine/Deep Learning methods in Earth Observation scientific problems and applications; Deep Learning methods and Foundation models for disaster management; Fairness and Explainability of AI models; Pattern Recognition and Event Detection on timeseries; Prediction and Explanation of Solar events; ML-driven Data Integration and Annotation.