Mickael Tanter, PhD is a Research Professor at Inserm, an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, a distinguished Professor at ESPCI Paris, and AXA Chair Professor. He currently heads the ‘Physics for Medicine Paris’ laboratory, and is also Director of the Inserm ‘Biomedical Ultrasound’ Technology Research Accelerator. Mickael is an expert in biomedical ultrasound and wave physics, has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and is cited on 50 international patents. He has co-invented several major innovations in biomedical ultrasound, and has pioneered the application of functional ultrasound (fUS) to the imaging of brain activity. He has received many national and international awards and distinctions, and is the co-founder of the medtech companies Supersonic Imagine, CardiaWave and Iconeus.