A natural of
São Paulo
,
Brazil
, Ivan de Araújo attended the
University
of
Brasilia
, from where he received his BA (Philosophy) and MA (Mathematics) degrees. He went on to perform additional post-graduate work at the
University
of
Edinburgh
, where he studied neural network models of hippocampal function. In 2003 he completed his doctorate in the laboratory of Edmund T. Rolls at
Oxford
University
, where he studied human brain representations of taste-odor combinations, fat perception, and thirst. He came to the
USA
in 2004 to perform post-doctoral work in the laboratories of Sid Simon and Miguel Nicolelis at
Duke
University
, where he studied the responses of neuronal populations to changes in physiological state in both rats and mice. He joined the Pierce Laboratory as an Assistant Fellow in June 2007.
