I am Leandro Nery de Oliveira, an associate professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and editor-in-chief of the Latin American Journal of Mathematics. I was born in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, and began my academic journey in the Mathematics Licentiate program at the Federal University of Acre (UFAC) in 1999, completing my degree in March 2003.

Since 2000, I have taught mathematics in state schools, covering all levels of basic education. My career in higher education started in 2003 as a temporary professor at UFAC, teaching in various municipalities across the state of Acre. In 2004, I became a substitute professor, and in November 2005, I joined UFAC as a permanent faculty member.

I completed my master's degree in 2011, with a dissertation on Characterization of Irreducible Plane Curve Germs with Maximal Torsion. In 2017, I earned my Ph.D. from the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), with a thesis on Aspects of Invariant and Equivariant Theory for the Action of the Lorentz Group in Minkowski Space.

In 2020, I moved to UFSCar, where I took on administrative roles, serving as deputy head of the Mathematics Department from March 2021 to July 2023 and, from August 2023 to July 2025, as department head. My research focuses on algebra and geometry, with a particular interest in invariant theory, centrossymetric determinantal varieties, foliations, and singularity theory.