Draulio Araujo Dráulio Barros de Araújo received his bachelor's degree in physics (1995), master’s in applied physics (1997), Ph.D. in physics applied to medicine and biology (2002), and pos-doctorate in radiology (2002), when he joined the department of physics (USP) as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor (2008). Since 2009, he is a full professor at the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (2017-19), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has been studying psychedelics since 2006 when his group used functional neuroimaging to assess the neural basis of the ayahuasca effects. He’s also leading clinical trials to test safety, tolerability, and the effects of ayahuasca and isolated N,N-DMT in healthy and clinical populations. He is also collaborating on research projects with LSD and ketamine.