\u201cRaupp was a key player in establishing a partnership agreement between INPE and the China Academy of Space Technology,\u201d says mechanical engineer Petr\u00f4nio Noronha de Souza, INPE technologist and former director of Space Policy and Strategic Investments at the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB). The agreement resulted in the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program (CBERS), which has helped develop six remote sensing satellites since the 1980s\u2014an achievement for which Raupp was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Rio Branco by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n
Raupp left INPE in 1989, after disagreements involving the Data Collection Satellite 1 (SCD-1), which would be launched four years later. In 1990, he took over the position of director of the newly created Polytechnic Institute of Rio de Janeiro at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He returned to S\u00e3o Paulo in 1994, after earning a full professorship at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), where he became an associate professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics. In 2001, he became director of the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC).\u201d Raupp had already helped establish the LNCC in the 1980s and bring applied mathematics to Brazil,\u201d shares Ana Tereza de Vasconcelos, a researcher at the LNCC Bioinformatics Laboratory. \u201cAs director of the institution, he worked to bring together researchers from different branches of physics and mathematics around applied research.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mathematician was also known for being a strong proponent of building bridges between the productive and academic sectors\u2013\u2013he helped found the S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos Technology Park (PqTec), of which he was director-general from 2006 to 2011, acting decisively in the implementation of innovative projects. \u201cDespite his strong presence in the public sphere, Raupp had always been very sensitive to the needs of the private sector and especially to the importance of bringing it closer to education and research institutions,\u201d adds Souza. Raupp became president of SBPC at the same time he was director of PqTec. \u201cHe was very politically savvy and always managed to remain strategic when it came to some of the nation\u2019s leading research institutions, acting as a great public entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raupp was known for being a strong proponent of building bridges between the productive and academic sectors in Brazil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Neuroscientist Luiz Eug\u00eanio Mello, scientific director of FAPESP, can attest to Raupp\u2019s ability to create avenues of communication. \u201cI consider him, alongside other colleagues, a key player in the establishment of the UNIFESP campus in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos. We went to the Ministry of Education together and, thanks to an endorsement by Raupp, who was in charge of PqTec at the time, we got eight professor posts approved at our first meeting with then director of SESU, Nelson Maculan,\u201d recalls Mello\u2014who was, at this time, associate dean of the undergraduate program at UNIFESP. \u201cHe naturally became a leader in the institutions where he worked, perhaps because he managed to infect his colleagues with this desire to transform Brazil into a ST&I hub,\u201d shares Vasconcelos. \u201cHe used to think a lot about the future of the institutions, always looking to improve them.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2011, Raupp left SBPC to become president of AEB, where he was able to use his experience in space policy and technology. He was also part of the Board of Directors of Alc\u00e2ntara Cyclone Space, a Brazilian-Ukrainian binational public company established in 2006 and shut down in 2018. In 2011, Raupp was invited by then president Dilma Rousseff to take over the MCT in place of Aloizio Mercadante. \u201cIt was a matter of time before he was named minister,\u201d says Ana Tereza de Vasconcelos. During his time as minister, Raupp was involved in the formulation of initiatives to promote the development of ST&I in businesses. One example of this is the founding of the Brazilian Company of Research and Industrial Innovation (EMBRAPII).<\/p>\n
He also helped implement the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite, which provided broadband internet access in remote regions of Brazil and helped ensure more secure communications for the federal government. \u201cHe was a great presence in the National Congress, promoting direct and transparent dialogue with congressmen about the importance of this area for the country, which was key when voting on the budget,\u201d adds Luiz Elias, executive secretary of the ministry when Raupp was responsible for the portfolio.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaupp was a permanent figure in Brazil\u2019s science, technology and innovation scene over the past 35 years,\u201d says Marco Antonio Zago, president of FAPESP. \u201cIn the numerous institutions he led, he was always focused on finding solutions to major problems. As director of INPE, he strengthened our autonomy in manufacturing and testing satellites and was the leader behind the establishment of PqTec\u2014a benchmark for this type of organization in Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raupp is survived by his wife, Elisabeth Alves Mendon\u00e7a, seven children (he also had one deceased daughter), and 13 grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Antonio Raupp led and helped establish important research institutions in Brazil","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":414672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1348],"tags":[217,243,246,235],"coauthors":[662],"class_list":["post-414671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary","tag-climate","tag-innovation","tag-mathematics","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414965,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414671\/revisions\/414965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=414671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}