Antonio Adilton O Carneiro received the B.Sc. degree in Physycs from the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Ba, Brazil, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D degree in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology from the Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He did postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade de São Paulo between 2002 and 2003; He was a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison-WI, in 2004 and at Mayo Clinic Foundation, in Rochester, MN, in 2006. He is currently a Full Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo; vice president of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering; Coordinator of the Group of Innovation in Biomedical Instrumentation and Ultrasound; Member of the board of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering; the Brazilian Society of Physics, and the Brazilian Association of Medical Physics. He teaches Basic Physics, Ultrasound in Biomedicine; Medical Instrumentation and Entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduation and graduation level. His main areas of research are in biomedical instrumentation, development of theranostic systems involving ultrasound, magnetism and optics, and development of tissue-mimicking phantoms for surgical training.