Sonja Smets

Sonja Smets
NationalityBelgian
Alma materVrije Universiteit Brussel
Scientific career
FieldsLogician
InstitutionsUniversity of Amsterdam
Doctoral advisorDiederik Aerts, Jean Paul Van Bendegem
7th Director of the ILLC, Amsterdam
In office
2016–2021
Preceded byYde Venema
Succeeded byRobert Van Rooij

Sonja Smets is a Belgian and Dutch logician and epistemologist known for her work in belief revision and quantum logic. She is Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Amsterdam, where she was the director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (2016-2021) and is affiliated with both the Faculty of Science and the Department of Philosophy. She also holds a visiting professor position at the University of Bergen in Norway.