Olga L. Mayol-Bracero

Olga L. Mayol-Bracero is a Puerto Rican atmospheric scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She is also the DOE ARM Lead Mentor of the Aerosol Observing Systems. She is a former associate professor at the UPRRP College of Natural Sciences. Her primary research focus is atmospheric aerosols. She researches the temporal and spatial variability of atmospheric aerosols; chemical, physical, and optical properties of atmospheric aerosols (African dust, biomass burning, marine, urban, biogenic) with particular interest in tropical regions; size-resolved aerosols composition and sources; carbonaceous aerosols (organic and black carbon); aerosols-clouds-precipitation interactions; air quality; the impact of atmospheric aerosols on degradation of structures.

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. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry from 1998 to 2001.