George (Georgios) is a Professor in Production Animal Medicine in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in the University of Thessaly (Greece). He has also been teaching at the University of United Arab Emirates (2010-2013). He was born in 1966 in Filiatra Messinia (Greece), where grew up on a sheep and goat dairy farm. He holds a DVM and a Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Thessaloniki (Greece), a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Hohenheim University (Germany), a Certificate in Sheep Health and Production from RCVS (UK), and the diplomas of European Colleges of Bovine and Small Ruminant Health Management (DipECBHM and DipECSRHM). He has pursued postdoc studies at Cornell University (USA) as a Fulbright scholar, and at Massey University (New Zealand) as an invited researcher. George is a caring veterinary clinician, with international work experience and specialist interest in Parasitology. He has been employed by the University of Thessaly since 1999 and has published widely in the field of Farm Animal Medicine. He is married and the father of a child.