George Church is known for his professional contributions in the sequencing of genomes and interpreting such data in synthetic biology and genome engineering. He is also a pioneer of the specialized fields of personal genomics and synthetic biology.

He is fascinated by a character who is an outsider and has his inner voice and inner compulsion to not accept obstacles, but to have faith in themselves. Moreover, he loves trying to understand a world of ambiguity, puzzles of contradictions and always being curious about that world.