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Giovanni G. Fazio
Education	BS (Physics) and BA (Chemistry) degrees from St. Mary's University, Texas, in 1954; Ph.D. (Physics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959
Alma mater	St. Mary's University, Texas
Known for	infrared instruments, including the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope
Awards	Six NASA Group Achievement Awards; Tsiolkovsky Medal (1998); UNICO National Marconi Science Medal (2005); NASA Public Service Medal (2005); Royal Society of London/COSPAR Massey Award (Gold Medal) (2008); Smithsonian Institution Secretary’s Distinguished Research Lecture Award (2009); Muhlman Award (2010); SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy, astrophysics
Institutions	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Website	https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~gfazio/

Giovanni Fazio is a Senior Physicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a well-known astrophysicists and has initiated and participated in many observation programs.

In 1962 he joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory, where he initiated a program in gamma-ray astronomy using balloon-borne and ground-based detectors. He also initiated the construction of the 10-meter optical reflector at the F. L. Whipple Observatory, Arizona, to search for ultra-high-energy cosmic gamma-rays.

In 1984 Fazio was selected as Principal Investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) experiment on the Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA). The telescope was launched in August, 2003, and since then continues to produce many important discoveries and spectacular new images of the infrared Universe.

Fazio is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. He is also the main editor of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology.

Fazio received the 2019 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics.