Olga L. Mayol-Bracero

Olga L. Mayol-Bracero is a Puerto Rican atmospheric chemist. Mayol-Bracero is an associate professor at the UPRRP College of Natural Sciences. Her primary research focus is atmospheric aerosols. She researches the impact of atmospheric aerosols on the climate, ecosystem, degradation of structures, and human health.

Education
Mayol-Bracero completed a B.Sc. (1989) and M.Sc. (1994) in chemistry at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP). Her master's thesis was titled Evaluation of a Continuous Composite Sampler for Volatile Organic Compounds in Water. She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at UPRRP and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1998. Her dissertation was titled Chemical and physical characterization of submicron organic aerosols in the tropical trade winds in the Caribbean. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry from 1998 to 2001.