Mario Barbatti

Cosmopolitan defines Mario Barbatti. Don't let the Italian-sounding name deceives you. Born and bred in Brazil, in the last two decades, he and his wife, Carla, have lived and worked in Austria, Netherlands, Germany, and France, as well as visited three dozen countries.

Mario Barbatti earned a Ph.D. in physics in 2001, and since 2015, he has been a professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Aix Marseille in France. In 2019, he became a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences.