Dr Michael Lobo : A Genius Rooted  in Family Roots
Dr Michael Lobo, a name so familiar in the intellectual circles in Mangalore hails from Bejai and is a man of great caliber.  He is a researcher, scientist, writer, genealogist, mountaineer, and chess player all in one.  A man, who stood for dignified life, utilized his talents and time for the literary works and spent his personal assets for the social cause.  A gentle man who neither ran after awards, nor lobbied for recognition and honours, who sacrificed his lucrative career abroad with bright prospectus and came back to his ancestral roots at ‘Camelot’, Bejai Church Road, Mangalore-575 004 to contribute something for the mangalorean society in 1993.

Dr Michael Lobo, a well known mangalorean both in India and abroad for his marathon work and comprehensive study of the history of mangalorean catholic community and the genealogy of its families entitled A Genealogical Encyclopaedia of Mangalorean Catholic Families.  Three of his books in this line being the parts of Genealogy have been published. Mangaloreans Worldwide - An International

Directory (1999): 360 pages
Distinguished Mangalorean Catholics (2000) - 600 pages
The Mangalorean Catholic Community - A Professional History/Directory (2002): 1200 pages

Dr Michael Lobo, born on September 12, 1953 at the ancestral home at Bejai to a learned couple Mr Camillo Lobo (1907-71), an Engineering graduate of Imperial College at London who later joined the British Indian Army and served with nobility and merit in Egypt and Italy during World War II, and Mrs Maisie Lobo (nee) Fernandes (1919-94) belonged to Tonse Fernandes Prabhu family, who migrated from Divarde, Goa to Kallianpur, in 1740.

Michael was a brilliant student with varied interests and talents.  He was matriculated from Montfort Boys High School, Yercaud, Tamil Nadu, graduated from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore and went on for post graduate studies in mathematics. His talent in chess qualified him in 1975 for the National A  (India’s top 20). He also dabbled in mountaineering, and underwent a course at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling clearing it with distinction.

However, Michael sacrificed both chess and mountaineering in favour of an academic career. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for research studies in Transonic Aerodynamics, the mathematical design of bodies, notably aircraft wings, moving at velocities close to the speed of sound. He published five papers on this subject, two of which appeared in the proceedings of the Royal Society, London. The Royal Society is the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific body.  Michael was formally awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1982 for his doctoral thesis earning him the "Young Scientist Award" of the Indian National Science Academy in 1983.

Michael obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, England in 1984 and was subsequently absorbed into the faculty of the Institute, being employed there until 1993.  During this period, he was engaged in contract research for a consortium of British Industry, including Rolls Royce and British Aerospace.

Michael authored a few technical works in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), notably Time Marching – A Step-by-step Guide to a Flow Solver, published by Ashgate Press in U.K. He supervised a number of Ph.D. students from different countries such as Greece, Taiwan, Brazil, Venezuela, Bangladesh and of course Britain itself.

Dr Michael is a man with multi talents, who has made Mangalore Konkani people proud and himself immortal by his valuable contribution of Genealogical Encyclopaedia of Mangalorean Catholic Families.  Konkaniworld.com cheers him and bestows on him the prestigious award of Konkaniworld Super Star.