George is a New Jersey native and earned his B.A. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Math from Rutgers University in 2012. As an undergraduate he trained with Professor Isaac Edery, exploring the circadian rhythms of Drosophila. After a year as a lab technician, he continued onto the University of California, Berkeley where he completed his doctoral work in 2019 under the mentorship of Professor Donald Rio. His PhD researched used biochemistry and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to understand the structural mechanism of Drosophila P element transposition.

In early 2020, he joined Dr. Kelly Nguyen at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK) to apply cryo-EM to study human telomerase and shelterin, complexes which orchestrate telomere maintenance in humans. His postdoctoral work has enriched the molecular description of human telomere maintenance, specifically providing the molecular basis behind telomerase activity, telomerase recruitment and regulation by shelterin, and how shelterin cohabits telomeric nucleosomes at telomeres. He became a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow in July 2021 and was later awarded the MRC-LMB Joan A. Steitz Postdoc Prize in 2022, in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of human telomere biology.

George will return to New Jersey in January 2025 where he will start his independent career in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Outside of science, George is an avid artist (nearly pursuing a career in fine arts), races cyclocross bikes and particularly enjoys the months of October and May.