Citing the words of Jacob Palis and Enrique Pujals in the preface of Pinto-Ferreira-Rand's Springer monograph: "All the smooth conjugacy classes of a given topological model are classified using Pinto's and Rand's HR structures".
During the period 2015-2018, Pinto will be a Special visiting researcher of CNPq (PEV-CNPq) at IMPA.