Georg Tremmel studied Visual Media Art at the University of Applied Art in Vienna and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, where he started the artistic collaborative research framework BCL. The Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) has the mission to explore the relations, congruences and différances of biological, synthetic, ethical and cultural codecs through artistic research and interventions.

The work of BCL has been recognised internationally by receiving numerous awards, fundings and exhibitions including a NESTA Creative Pioneer Award (2004), the Nam June Paik Award Exhibition, Honorary Mention in Hybrid Art at Ars Electronics and an Honorary Mention at the Japan Media Arts Festival Georg also has experience as scientific researcher at the University of Tokyo's Human Genome Center in the Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, specialising on Visual Analytics and Information Visualisation of Cancer Genomics.

He is also a Visiting Researcher at Waseda University's metaPhorest Art & BioMedia Research Group and a member of the PRIINT Artistic Research Group at the University of Fine Art in Tokyo.

Georg founded the BioClub Tokyo in 2015, an independent BioCommuninity and BioLab in the center of Tokyo, enabling access to a state-of-the art BioLab to artists, designers and makers. BioClub is also a global node of the MIT Media Lab's 'How to Grow Almost Anything' Synthetic Biology course.