Sonja Smets#
Photo: Dirk Gillissen
| Membership Number: | 5176 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/m/s.j.l.smets/s.j.l.smets.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Full Professor in Logic and Epistemology at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
- 2016 - 2021 Scientific Director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
- 2019 Professor II, three year 0.2Fte appointment, Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
- 2012 - 2016 Associate Professor, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam.
- 2009 - 2012 Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow and university lecturer, Depts. of Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Groningen
- 2001 - 2009 Post-doctoral researcher, Flemish Fund for Scientific Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 2005 - 2009 Part-time lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 1997 - 2001 Ph.D.-research assistant. Flemish Fund for Scientific Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 1997.01 - 1997.10: Ph.D.-research assistant. Interdisciplinary research Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Fields of Scholarship
- Formal epistemology
- Quantum logic
- Logics for Multi-Agent Systems in AI
- Social epistemology
- Dynamic epistemic logic
- Topological semantics
Honours and Awards
- 2012 - 2017 ERC Starting Grant: The Logical Structure of Correlated Information Change
- 2010 - 2015 VIDI Research Grant: Reasoning about Quantum Interaction. NWO
- 2009 - 2012 Rosalind Franklin Fellowship, University of of Groningen
- 2012 Awarded with the Birkhoff-Von Neumann Prize
- 2015 Awarded with the Hermann Lotze Prize
- Member of the NIAS-Lorentz advisory board from May 2017 onwards
- Member of the Management Board of FOLLI, The Association for Logic, Language and Information from August 2016 onwards
- Member of the Steering Committee for the Workshop series on Decisions, Games and Logic (DGL) from 2014 onwards
- Awarded Fellow of the Tsinghua University – University of Amsterdam Joint Research Center for Logic (TALKC), July 2014 - July 2017
