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N. P. Gentile Fusillo is a leading astrophysicist whose work centers on large-scale spectroscopic surveys and the design of cutting-edge astronomical instruments. A key contributor to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), they co-authored the seminal 2016 paper on its instrument design (234 citations), which details the robotically-actuated fiber system that enables DESI to map tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, probing dark energy through baryon acoustic oscillations. More recently, Gentile Fusillo has been instrumental in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V), the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. Their work on SDSS-V, published in 2025 (25 citations), showcases their role in pioneering panoptic spectroscopy across both hemispheres. By combining expertise in instrumentation and survey science, Gentile Fusillo has helped advance our understanding of cosmic structure and galaxy evolution. Their contributions to these flagship projects underscore a career dedicated to building the tools that unlock the universe’s deepest mysteries.