The Encyclopedia of Cosmology is a new and exciting project which will be a major, long-lasting, seminal reference (a set of 4 major volumes) at the graduate student level, laid out by the most prominent, respected researchers in the general field of Cosmology.

These volumes will be a comprehensive review of the most important concepts and current status in the field of Cosmology of the Universe, covering both theory and observation, on topics including Cosmic Inflation, Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Numerical Simulations in Cosmology.

One of the most exciting parts of the encyclopedia is that it will exist in both print and, more importantly, electronic forms, perhaps even with some level of interactivity with material such as expanded explanations, movie clips, dynamic pictures, examples of on-line computation, etc. The electronic version will also reflect constant updates of the material. It will be a truly unique publication, unlike anything any of us have seen or known of in existence today.

Dr Giovanni Fazio is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in space-borne astronomy, as signaled by his numerous international awards. In 2008, Dr Fazio received the Royal Society of London-COSPAR Massey award for his outstanding contributions to space science, and more recently, in 2015, received the highest award of the American Astronomical Society — the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship. Earlier, in 2005, Dr Fazio received the UNICO National Marconi Science Award and Medal and the NASA Public Service Medal. He was selected as Principal Investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (known as “IRAC”) flown onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA’s Great Observatories. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and past chairman of its Astrophysics Division, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the American Astronomical Society and past chairman of its High Energy Astrophysics Division, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, amongst others. Dr Fazio is presently Senior Physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.