Andrea Canals is a mathematician with a master's degree in Biostatistics and an assistant professor at the School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Chile. Additionally, she works as a quantitative methodologist at the Arturo López Perez Foundation. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in biostatistics, statistical computing, and research methodology. She has published multiple articles in scientific journals on topics related to biostatistics applied to scientific research in human health, epidemiology, scientific methodology, and mathematical modeling.