Vanesa Magar Brunner

Vanesa Magar Brunner (also known as Vanesa Magar) is a Mexican scientist, a chartered mathematician, and an associate professor at the Physical Oceanography Department, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education, Mexico. She studies the effects of climate change on coastal erosion and evolution of coastlines, and wind and tidal energy. She was Secretary General (2016-2017), is currently Vice President (2018-2019), and will become President (2020-2021), of the Unión Geofísica Mexicana (Mexican Geophysical Union). Magar is Academic Editor of PLOS ONE (since 2011), Invited Editor of PLOS "Responding to Climate Change Channel" (since 2017), and Associate Editor of "Frontiers in Marine Science - Ocean and Coastal Processes" (since 2014).

Vanesa Magar[1]
Born (1971-08-04) 4 August 1971
Mexico City
NationalityMexican and French
Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico
University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsEnsenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education

University of Plymouth
Bangor University

University of Cambridge
ThesisNutrient Uptake by a Self-Propelled Steady Squirmer (2001)
Doctoral advisor

Early life and education

Magar was born in 1971 to Roger Bernard Daniel Louis Magar Vincent (1936- ), a physicist and renewable energy specialist, and Palmira Brunner Liebshard (1940-2018), a biologist turned palaeontologist. She was educated at the Lycée Franco-Mexicain, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and at Clare College and Wolfson College, Cambridge University.

After taking her Baccalauréat in Physics, Mathematics and Technology (Bac E) at the Lycée Franco-Mexicain in Mexico City in 1989, Magar moved to France and continued studying Physics, Maths, and Technology at the University of Nantes. But, after starting her second year she decided to return to Mexico and study Physics and Mathematics degrees at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

In 1992, Magar was selected by NASA to take part in a space life sciences training programme at Kennedy Space Center, to celebrate International Space Year.[3] Magar completed her Bachelors in physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1996.[4] She moved to the UK for her Masters, graduating from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University, in 1997.[4] She remained there also for her PhD, working on fluid dynamics with Tim Pedley.[5][6] Together they studied the uptake of nutrients by swimming microorganisms.[7][8] She graduated in 2001.[4]

Research and publications

Magar remained at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University, England, between 2001 and 2002, for her postdoctoral studies.[4] She joined Bangor University in 2002, researching the transport of sediment above rippled beds.[9] In 2005, she won a Research Councils UK Fellowship to work at the University of Plymouth.[10]

She was appointed a lecturer at the University of Plymouth in 2010. In 2014 she moved to the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education, where she is an associate professor of Physical Oceanography.[11] She researches ways to mitigate climate change in the Sonoran Desert and projects related to renewable energy.[12] Magar is concerned that Mexico are not best exploiting marine energy.[13]

She is the vice president of the Unión Geofísica Mexicana for 2018 and 2019.[14][15]

Select first-authored journal articles include:

  • Magar, Vanesa; Godínez, Victor M.; Gross, Markus; López-Mariscal, Manuel; Bermúdez-Romero, Anahí; Candela, Julio; Zamudio, Luis. (2020, January). In-Stream Energy by Tidal and Wind-Driven Currents: An Analysis for the Gulf of California. Energies, 13(5): 1095. DOI: doi.org/10.3390/en13051095
  • Magar, Vanesa; Gross, Markus; González-García, L. (2018). Offshore wind energy resource assessment under techno-economic and social-ecological constraints. Ocean & Coastal Management, 152: 77-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.10.007
  • Magar, Vanesa; Pedley, TJ. (2005). Average nutrient uptake by a self-propelled unsteady squirmer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 539: 93-112. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005005768
  • Magar, Vanesa; Goto, Tomonobu; Pedley, TJ. (2003). Nutrient Uptake by a Self‐Propelled Steady Squirmer. The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 56(1): 65-91. DOI: 10.1093/qjmam/56.1.65

Book chapters as a lead/co-author include:

  • Vanesa Magar. (2018). Tidal Current Technologies: Brief Overview and In-Depth Coverage of the State of the Art. In (Eduardo Rincón-Mejía & Alejandro de las Heras, Eds.) Sustainable Energy Technologies (1st edition). CRC Press. ISBN 9781138034389[16]
  • Deborah Greaves, Carlos Perez‐Collazo, Curran Crawford, Bradley Buckham, Vanesa Magar, Francisco Acuña, Sungwon Shin, Hongda Shi, Chenyu. (2018). Regional Activities. In (Deborah Greaves & Gregorio Iglesias, Eds.) Wave and Tidal Energy. Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781119014492.ch13[17]

Awards and honors

Personal life

In 2009, she married Markus S. Gross, an engineer turned geoscientist who also works at the Physical Oceanography Department, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education. They have one son, Damián Suré Gross-Magar (born 14 April 2010).

She enjoys entertaining, reading, and hiking.

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References
  1. Vanesa Magar Brunner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Vanesa Magar Brunner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "NASA SELECTS STUDENTS FOR SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING". NASA. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  4. "Dr Vanesa Magar (Investigador) – GEM". gem.cicese.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  5. "Professor Timothy J. Pedley's Home Page". damtp.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  6. "Biological Fluids Group Personnel". damtp.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  7. Magar, V. (2003-02-01). "Nutrient Uptake by a Self-Propelled Steady Squirmer". The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 56 (1): 65–91. doi:10.1093/qjmam/56.1.65. ISSN 0033-5614.
  8. Magar, Vanesa; Pedley, T. J. (25 September 2005). "Average nutrient uptake by a self-propelled unsteady squirmer". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 539: 93–112. doi:10.1017/S0022112005005768. ISSN 1469-7645.
  9. Malarkey, J.; Magar, V.; Davies, A.G. (2015-10-01). "Mixing efficiency of sediment and momentum above rippled beds under oscillatory flows". Continental Shelf Research. 108: 76–88. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2015.08.004. ISSN 0278-4343.
  10. "Dr Vanessa Magar - University of Plymouth". plymouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  11. "Dr Vanesa Magar (Senior researcher)". Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Environmental Modelling. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  12. "Vanesa Magar". N-Gen. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  13. "No explota México energía sustentable - El Vigía" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  14. "Mesa Directiva : Unión Geofísica Mexicana A.C." ugm.org.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  15. "Reunión Anual 2017, UGM". raugm.org.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  16. Sustainable energy technologies. Rincón Mejía, Eduardo A.,, De Las Heras, Alejandro,. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-315-26997-9. OCLC 1013165999.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. Greaves, Deborah; Perez-Collazo, Carlos; Crawford, Curran; Buckham, Bradley; Magar, Vanesa; Acuña, Francisco; Shin, Sungwon; Shi, Hongda; Chenyu (2018-03-31), Greaves, Deborah; Iglesias, Gregorio (eds.), "Regional Activities", Wave and Tidal Energy, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 587–658, doi:10.1002/9781119014492.ch13, ISBN 978-1-119-01449-2, retrieved 2020-07-12
  18. "Vanesa Magar | Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, BC. - Academia.edu". cicese.academia.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  19. "Vanesa Magar | Software Sustainability Institute". software.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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