George V. Eleftheriades earned his M.S.E.E. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1989 and 1993 respectively, where he was involved in the development of sub-millimeter-wave and THz technology sponsored by NASA. From 1994-1997 he was with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where he was engaged in the design of millimetre and sub-millimetre wave receivers for the European Space Agency.

Currently he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Nano- and Micro-Structured Electromagnetic Materials and Applications. Currently he holds the Velma M. Rogers Graham Chair in Engineering

Professor Eleftheriades is a recognized international authority and pioneer in the area of metamaterials. These are man-made media which have electromagnetic properties not found in nature. Professor Eleftheriades introduced a method for synthesizing metamaterials using loaded transmission lines. Together with his graduate students, he provided the first experimental evidence of imaging beyond the diffraction limit with a Veselago-Pendry lens and pioneered several novel microwave and optical components, and antennas using these transmission-line based metamaterials. By March 2023 his work has been cited more than 23,000 times.