Team Member

Alicia is an epidemiologist specialised in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. She completed her PhD on Real-World Evidence in Heart Failure at University Medical Center Utrecht in 2020. During her PhD she collaborated with the Institute for Health Informatics at University College London where she studied Electronic Health Records and Risk Factors for Heart Failure. In addition, she collaborated with Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, where she studied the Swedish Heart Failure registry.

Following her PhD, Alicia continued as Assistant Professor at University Medical Center Utrecht studying personalised medicine for patients with heart failure. Currently, since 2023 she is Assistant Professor at Amsterdam University Medical Center and affiliated researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

In her research, Alicia focuses on applying advanced epidemiological methodology and data science on real-world data sources to obtain real-world evidence for patients with heart failure.

In addition, since 2021 Alicia works as a project manager, epidemiologist and daily board member in the Heart4Data Consortium to establish a fast-lane for cardiovascular registry-based research in the Netherlands.