SHORT BIO:
Sonja Smets is professor of Logic and Epistemology at both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She established herself as an expert in the domain of non-classical Philosophical Logic, and especially its applications to the logical-philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the reasoning about knowledge and belief in formal epistemology and in multiagent systems. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and won the Birkhoff-Von Neumann Prize in 2012.
Smets is the former director of the ILLC, the vice-president of the International Quantum Structures association and the current president of FOLLI, The Association for Logic, Language and Information.
On March 19, 2025, Sonja Smets held the fourth talk in the seminar series “Women in Logic Online”.
If you missed this talk, you can now watch the recording on the VCLA youtube channel!
Women in Logic https://womeninlogic.org/