Krerley Oliveira is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil, where he founded the graduate program in mathematics and the State of Alagoas Math Olympiad program, where he promotes young talent for mathematics. He was a medalist at the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad (1996) and twice at the Iberoamerican Mathematical Olympiad for university students (1999 and 2000). He was elected an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2007 2012) and his research is focused on dynamical systems and ergodic theory.