Other names Roberto Leal Lobo Other name Roberto Leal Lobo | Years active 1962–present | |
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Full Name Roberto Leal Lobo e Silva Filho Born September 4, 1938 ( 1938-09-04 ) Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Occupation Researcher, Professor, University Manager and Consultant Known for President of USP, President of UMC, Director of CNPq, President of Instituto Lobo Notable work Creator of Synchroton, President of the Scientific Committee ALFA, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by the Purdue University Spouse(s) Maria Beatriz de Carvalho Melo Lobo Education Purdue University (1991–1991), Purdue University (1964–1967) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean | ||
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Roberto Lobo (birthname Roberto Leal Lobo e Silva Filho), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC). Later, he received Master's and Doctorate’s degrees in Physics from Purdue University in the United States. In 1991, Roberto Lobo was awarded with the Honorary Doctor of Science Degree (called in some universities "Doctor Honoris Causa"), by Purdue University.
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- Concejal roberto lobo en trt programa 30 minutos
- Concejal roberto lobo en trt programa expresi n libre
- As President of University of So Paulo
- As President of University of Mogi das Cruzes
- Dr Lobos Participation in Research Committees
- National Synchrotron Light Laboratory
- International Associations
- Consultant Work
- References
At the University of São Paulo (USP) he developed a long and successful academic career as a researcher, full-time professor and manager, holding several command position, reaching its vice - presidency and presidency. USP is the largest public university in Brazil, with almost 100 thousand students (1/3 graduate) and the country’s most prestigious higher education institution. It is reputed as number one university in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, according to the most prestigious university rankings and analysts.
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As President of University of São Paulo
Having assumed the presidency with USP in a deep financial crisis due to the great inflation that Brazil suffered at that time, he had to combine the need for constant improvement of an institution the size of USP with the financial restrictions and the need of a deep reorganization.
In addition to cleaning up the University's finances, he worked and improved every major academic (education, research and extension) and institutional indicators, as shown in several university publications.
Under his leadership, the university gave priority to the quality of undergraduate teaching, a difficult task in a research university of this level. New majors were created (many of them nightly to meet qualified students who had to work), and started the most innovative and revolutionary major in Brazil at the time, "Molecular Sciences" that still exists to this day. Students graduated in this program frequently go directly to the best PhDs programs in the world, most of them with prestigious grants from the Government of Brazil and abroad. This Major was evaluated by a high level commission from the Academy of Sciences of Brazil and was considered an example of teaching excellence and research in the area.
During his term as president there was big opening of the University for the population, using the campus as a locus of culture and leisure, putting together more than 120,000 people per weekend and, likewise, amplifying the interaction with the community and businesses, increasing significantly the fund raising to support these programs.
As President of University of Mogi das Cruzes
Later, he became president of a large private university in Brazil, the University of Mogi das Cruzes, expanding his experience on university management to include both the public and the private sectors.
In his three years as president, UMC changed. As a university dedicated to teaching, (outside the capital of São Paulo and without good quality indicators) and no experience in raising research funds and graduate studies, in only 18 months of work the University of Mogi das Cruzes became the second private institution in the ranking of funding of FAPESP (see below), participated as the only private university in the Genome Project (DNA sequencing in Brazil), created and reorganized several research centers and had two master's degree programs approved by the federal agency graduate of accreditation (CAPES) with the best possible assessment given to new programs. Those programs became soon after a short period of time, doctorate programs.
In addition, UMC image improved significantly, based on an extensive academic advancement program that modernized the curricula of its more than 30 undergraduate majors, a better qualification of the Faculty, with an increase from 9% to 39% the number of masters and doctors among its professors and increased the number of new applicants from 16,000 to 35,000 candidates, all supported additionally by a solid and aggressive marketing plan. UMC financially not only reached equilibrium during that period but it was also able to capture 11% of its budget derived from other programs besides tuitions.
Dr. Lobo's Participation in Research Committees
Dr. Lobo took part in the management of major institutions involved in the funding and development of research projects, especially in the field of Science, Technology and Higher Education, either as director or member of senior counsel, including the Foundation for the Support of Research of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP is the most important state agency in Brazil for funding science projects by university faculties from the state of São Paulo), director of the Brazilian Physics Research Center (CPBF), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil’s biggest and most relevant federal support agency and research funding.
National Synchrotron Light Laboratory
It was as CNPq’s Director that he actively participated in the most audacious and significant scientific project in the country at that time – the Brazilian Synchrotron Accelerator. The National Synchrotron Light Laboratory has the larger particle accelerator in Latin America and the first in the southern hemisphere. He was responsible for its conceptual project, creation and coordination of deployment for three years, before returning to USP as its vice-president, in 1986.
International Associations
He has also several experiences in international associations. Probably the most important one was ALFA, an international program to enhance the scientific collaboration between Europe and Latin America, through the financing of joint research projects and mobility programs for student and researches from 895 Higher Education Institutions (373 from Latin America and 522 from Europe) and also 155 associated institutions composing 596 research networks. He was elected by his peers in the Committee vice-president of the committee for three years. Later, he became the Committee’s president and hold that place from 1997 to 1999.
Other important international experiences as a member of the Columbus Program, a program funded by the European Community with technical support from the Board of Presidents European Community – CRE where he became an international consultant and part of the staff of the training programs for new university presidents in Latin America organized by Columbus. He has also participated in several other international and national committees and boards of prestigious institutions and universities networks in Brazil, United States and Latin America.
Consultant Work
As manager partner of Lobo & Associates Consulting and president of the Lobo Institute Roberto Lobo had surveyed as a consultant more than 130 client institutions (public and private, companies and government agencies) in 25 states of Brazil and some countries in Latin America and Europe.
They covered the areas of Corporate Governance, Strategic Planning, Institutional Development Plans, Coaching, Institutional Assessment, Faculty Evaluation, Career Plans, Bylaws and Regiments, Administrative Diagnostics, Academic and Financial Market, Research, Course and Institutions Creation, Research, Education, Extension, International Cooperation, from 1999 to 2014.
As a researcher, manager in the fields of Science, Technology and Higher Education, he published, throughout his career, dozens of scientific articles, book chapters, articles in newspapers and general circulation magazines and produced studies and reports on important national and international organizations, among which for international organizations such as UNESCO and CINDA.
Having received a Green Card in 2016 as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability as an Executive and Researcher in Science, Technology, and Higher Education Management he is living now in US.