Dr Marcelo A Montemurro is a theoretical physicist at the University of Manchester, UK.
In June 2013, he, along with Damian Zanette published an analysis of the Voynich Manuscript in the journal Plos One, in which they stated that it had a genuine message (Montemurro, Marcelo A.; Zanette, Damián H. (20 June 2013). "Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis". PLoS ONE 8 (6): e66344. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066344).
More information on the BBC page here and the Yahoo news article here. There are various other articles on the topic.
The abstract, on the Plos One website is here.
His Open University webpage is [1] (checked November 2021).
A list of his works here.