Giancarmine Fasano is Associate Professor at the University of Naples "Federico II" (UniNa), where he holds courses in "Unmanned Aircraft Systems", "Space Flight Dynamics", and “Design of Autonomous Aircraft”, within the framework of M.S. Programmes in Aerospace Engineering and Autonomous Vehicles Engineering. He also holds courses (UAS and Mini/micro-UAS Lab) at the Italian Air Force Academy. His research activities in the field of aeronautics are focused on UAS, and in particular on sense and avoid, cooperative multi-drone systems, path planning and navigation with recent emphasis on Advanced Air Mobility scenarios. In the space field he is mainly interested in distributed space systems and proximity operations, with emphasis on relative motion design/control and relative navigation, and in space domain awareness.

He has carried out several research programs with funding from both public institutions (Italian Space Agency, Italian Aerospace Research Center, Ministry of Education, University and Research, European Union) and private (large and small/medium) companies.

Within the UAS field, he is currently Principal Investigator for UniNa of the national project "4IPLAY" (Improving Intelligent Infrastructure Inspection by Pushing UAS Level of AutonomY in challenging environments ) and has been PI for “CREATEFORUAS” (Cooperation and REliable Autonomous TEchnologies to Foster Operations Relying on Unmanned Aircraft Systems), and “SMARTGO” (gnsS-enabled urban air Mobility through Ai-powered environment-awaRe Techniques for strateGic and tactical path planning Operations). He is the UniNa Scientific Responsible of the Horizon Europe project “ASTONISH” (Alternate Surveillance Technologies fOr iNnovatIve Solutions) and has been UniNa Responsible of the Horizon 2020 project "AMPERE" (Asset Mapping Platform for Emerging Countries Electrification), where a multi-drone system for industrial inspection has been tested in flight. He is the Scientific Responsible of a 5-year Space Act Agreement with NASA aimed at joint research on sensing for Urban Air Mobility.

He is Vice-Chair of the Avionics Systems Panel (ASP) of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems for the Avionics area, Associate Editor of the IEEE AESS Magazine for the UAS area of specialty, IEEE Senior Member, and has been AESS Distinguished Lecturer in 2023-2024. Since 2019, he has been Member of the Organizing Committee, Chair of the Student Research Competition, and Track Chair for the IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, where two of his papers have been awarded as “Best of Track”. Within DASC, he has also been Tutorial Instructor delivering lectures on “Detect and Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems” and free tutorials in cooperation with other members of the ASP. In 2021 he has been invited speaker at IEEE MetroAerospace, with a tutorial entitled “Advances in UAS Technologies: Sense and Avoid and Multi-drone Systems”. He is also Member of the AIAA Sensor Systems and Information Fusion Technical Committee and AIAA Senior Member. In 2024, he has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He has co-authored more than 200 publications and five book chapters, which gathered about 3600 citations with h-index 30 (Google Scholar).