Jairton Dupont (born 16 December 1958 in Farroupilha) is a Brazilian chemist whose research concerns ionic liquids, organometallic catalysis, and metallic nanoparticles.
Currently, he is a professor at UFRGS.
Since 2014 he has been Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham.He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a recipient of Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit and the TWAS Prize.Dupont earned his Ph.D.