Hamilton Varela

Hamilton Varela earned his chemical engineering degree at UFRN (1997) and a master’s at USP in Brazil (2000), followed by a Ph.D. at the Fritz Haber Institute/FU Berlin (2003). After a postdoc at TU Munich, he joined USP, becoming Full Professor in 2017. He co-founded the Ertl Center in South Korea and serves as Director of International Affairs at RCGI/USP. Ranked among the top 1.5% most influential energy researchers, his work focuses on electrocatalysis, hydrogen, chemical energy conversion, and kinetic instabilities in complex systems.