Jairton Dupont

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Jairton Dupont received his PhD at the Universite´ Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (France) and after a period as a post-doc at the University of Oxford (UK), he became a Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, UFRGS (Brazil). He has been an invited Professor at ULP (France), Nuremberg-Erlangen (Germany) and Universidad de Alcala de Henares and Rovira i Virgili (Spain). He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, among the various distinctions he has received the Humboldt Research Award, the Conrado Wessel Science Award and the Brazilian Gran Cruz. His research interests are mainly centered on ionic liquids with special emphasis in catalysis, nanomaterials and alternative energies. He has co-authored around 200 scientific publications and several patents and book chapters.