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).