Assistant Professor
Julius Center for Health Science and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, Netherlands
Constanza Lourdes Andaur Navarro was born in Santiago, Chile. In 2009, she started with her bachelor and master in dentistry at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.She graduated cum laude in 2015. After that, Constanza worked as a dentist in private clinic and deployed
a caries preventive program for children in a low-income municipality. In this period, she also obtained a postgraduate certificate in Evidence-based Medicine in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2017, Constanza received a scholarship from the National Committee for Scientific and technology (Becas Chile) to study Clinical Epidemiology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Constanza’s enthusiasm for research motived her to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology. In 2019, Constanza started working as a PhD student at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, supervised by Prof. Carl Moons, Prof. Lotty Hooft and Dr. Anneke Damen. Constanza participated as fellow for public engagement in the Open Science strategy from Utrecht University. The results of her PhD research, titled “Quality of machine learning prediction models in healthcare”, are presented in this thesis. Constanza currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in Real World Evidence at the department of data science and biostatistics at the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands.
