Ivan De Araujo | |
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| Alma mater | University of Brasilia |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gut-Brain Axis |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Yale University University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Taste and Olfactory Representations in the Human Brain (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edmund T. Rolls |
Ivan De Araujo is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, along with Peter Dayan. He is known for his seminal investigations on sugar preference and on the reward functions of the gut-brain axis. After describing the taste-independent reward phenomenon, he pioneered studies linking the intestine to the brain dopamine system.