Giorgos Fagas PhD MBA serves as the Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall National Institute and is a member of its Executive Leadership team. In this capacity, he is responsible for shaping the institute's overall international positioning, initiating and overseeing major strategic initiatives that span the entire institute, and managing the collective strategic planning process. Giorgos also ensures the effective delivery of Tyndall's strategic plan, driving the institute towards its long-term objectives.

A key part of Giorgos’s remit is Tyndall’s international profile. He is actively involved in several influential policy and industry groups, both within Ireland and across Europe. These include serving as the Europe Chair for the Industry Association for Microelectronics and Electronic Systems Design in Ireland (MIDAS), holding a directorship at the SiNANO Institute, and being a member of the Executive Committee of EPoSS and the AENEAS Scientific Council. His academic contributions extend globally as well, holding an adjunct professorship at the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Giorgos holds a PhD in Physics from Lancaster University, UK, awarded in 2000, and an executive MBA from University College Cork, Ireland, completed in 2012. Previously, Giorgos led the CMOS++ programme at Tyndall, which comprised around 50 researchers. This strategic programme focused on emerging materials, devices, and architectures for next-generation information processing, particularly in relation to interfacing with CMOS technology and exploring possibilities beyond it. His own research group, the Quantum Electronic Device Group (QED), is highly interdisciplinary, combining expertise from physics, chemistry, materials science, electrical engineering, and theoretical modelling and simulation. The group’s aim is to engineer emerging material platforms and develop new devices for scalable quantum computer architectures.

Giorgos has played a significant role in aligning and securing resources for the launch and sustainability of the Tyndall Quantum Computer Engineering Centre, the first dedicated programme of its kind in Ireland aimed at advancing quantum science. He has also led Tyndall’s successful involvement in the Tier 1 Pilot Lines NanoIC and FAMES, supporting the EU Chips Act, from initial negotiations through to project kick-off and execution.

Instrumental in the development of the 'Quantum 2030 National Strategy for Quantum Technologies', Giorgos continues to participate in its implementation group and chairs the activities of the ‘National and International Collaboration’ Pillar, supporting the strategy’s effective execution.

Giorgos is a key contributor to major international strategic research and innovation agendas, including the ECS-SRIA and IRDS. He has initiated several EU projects, acting as Principal Investigator on 18 occasions and as Coordinator on three. Notably, he has led EU-funded programmes such as ASCENT+ and INFRACHIP, which provided open access to infrastructure for early-stage research on nanoelectronics and semiconductor chips, and has overseen the ICOS-project activity on Technology Scanning and Foresight, focused on international cooperation in semiconductors.