Prof. Monica M Arroyo Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
Monica Arroyo earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Maine, Orono, and a PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She did a postdoc in Structural Biology at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Member of the prestigious Honor Societies Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi, she is full professor in Chemistry at Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce teaching mainly undergraduate organic chemistry and graduate biochemistry courses. Since 2015 she is Visiting Research Professor in the laboratory of Dr Javier de Las Rivas in the Cancer Research Center at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is president of Phi Kappa Phi chapter 336. In 2021 she was secretary of the ACS Puerto Rico Local Section, and is Member of LSAC since 2022.