Georges Stoops is Honorary member and Past President of the of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences. He was elected Associated Member in 1988, Full Member in 1993.

In 1962 he participated in the geopedological mission to the Galápagos Islands organised by the Ghent University. From 1962 to 1967 he worked at the Lovanium University (now University of Kinshasa, DRC) as assistant and lecturer. Since 1968 he is appointed at the Ghent university, and became Full Professor in 1987 and Emeritus Professor in 2002. From 1993 till 2001 he was Chairman of the Department Geology and Soil Science, from 1989 till 2001 Director of the “International Training Centre for Post-Graduate Soil Scientists” of the Ghent University. From 1999 till 2002 he was vice-president of the Steering Committee of Development Cooperation of the VlIR. He was involved in several university cooperation projects in Africa, Asia and South America (e.g., Cairo, Irbid, Kuala Lumpur, Lusaka, Paramaribo), and repeatedly guest lecturer for micromorphology courses at several universities in Africa, Europe and South America (e.g., Bahia Blanca, Barcelona, Bratislava, Granada, Lleida, Tunis).

He is/was member of editorial boards of national and international journals, and organised several congresses and workshops in Belgium and abroad. He was awarded several scientific medals, such as the Dokuchaev medal of the All Union of Soviet Soil Scientists of the Academy of Science (1985), the Kubiëna medal of the International Society of Soil Science (now IUSS) (1992) and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal of the EGU (2010).

His research is concentrated on the micromorphology and mineralogy of arid and humid tropical soils, including laterites and soils on volcanic ash. He contributed substantially to the development of concepts and terminology for micromorphological analyses and to its methodology.