Assistant Fellow
The John B. Pierce Laboratory

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine

Laboratory:
Neurobiology Of Feeding

E mail: iaraujo@jbpierce.org
Telephone: (203) 562-9901,
ext. 204

Education

BA, MA, University of Brasilia
MSc, University of Edinburgh
DPhil, University of Oxford

Biographical Sketch

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.