Artur Avila
Brazilian-French mathematician
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian and naturalized French mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and... Wikipedia
Born: 1979 (age 44 years), Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2001) and Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Known for: Dynamical systems; Spectral theory; Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture; Ten martini problem
Awards: Fields Medal, Salem Prize, and EMS Prize
Academic advisor: Welington de Melo
Nationality: Brazilian and French
Parents: Raimundo Nonato Cordeiro de Melo and Lenir Letiere de Avila