I was born and raised in a quiet neighbourhood in São Paulo, Brazil. After a very healthy childhood, climbing trees, flying kites, playing football, etc., I moved to Campinas for my undergraduate. In 2005 I earned the Bachelor degree in Chemistry from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and moved back to São Paulo. I started then the postgrad degree at the Institute of Physics, of Universidade de São Paulo. After attending a set of courses, I moved farther away, to Aberdeen, towards the end of 2006. I earned my PhD from the University of Aberdeen on aspects related to Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics. Three good years in Scotland have passed then, hoping for warmer days, in 2010 I moved to Leipzig for a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, where I ended up staying until the beginning of 2016 as a research fellow in the group of Prof. Jürgen Jost. Back to back, in 2016 I moved to Campinas for a Fapesp Young Investigator Award, and then got a permanent position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Unicamp.