Sonja Smets: advisors and students

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Sonja Smets

Belgian and Dutch logician and epistemologistborn 1971

Supervised 19 doctoral students at Logic and Language (ILLC, ILLC (FGw), and Faculty of Science; Wikidata names Jean Paul Van Bendegem as doctoral advisor, lists 4 doctoral students, and names Diederik Aerts and Jean Paul Van Bendegem as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students19

cited by a thesis record
D. Khaitovich “From arbitrary sets to social groups”
2026 · ILLC (FGw) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
L. Li “Games, boards and play”
2023 · ILLC (FNWI) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
D. McHugh “Causation and modality”
2023 · ILLC (FGw) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Y. Wang “Collective agency”
2023 · ILLC (FNWI) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
S. Ramotowska “Quantifying quantifier representations”
2022 · ILLC (FGw) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
C.B. Guilfoyle Chartier “A pragmatic defense of logical pluralism”
2021 · Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
A. Solaki “Logical models for bounded reasoners”
2021 · ILLC (FNWI/FGw) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
T. Uemura “Abstract and concrete type theories”
2021 · Logic and Computation (ILLC · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
I. Canavotto “Where responsibility takes you”
2020 · Logic and Language (ILLC · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
J.E. Witteveen “Parameterized analysis of complexity”
2020 · Faculty of Science · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
K. Xie “Where causality, conditionals and epistemology meet”
2020 · Logic and Language (ILLC · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
J.M. Bergfeld “Quantum logics for expressing and proving the correctness of quantum programs”
2019 · Faculty of Science · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
C. Shi “Reason to believe”
2018 · ILLC (FGw) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
A. Özgün “Evidence in epistemic logic”
2017 · Faculty of Science · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
P. Galeazzi “Play without regret”
2017 · ILLC (FNWI) · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Z.L. Christoff “Dynamic logics of networks: Information flow and the spread of opinion”
2016 · Logic and Language (ILLC · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
S. Zhong “Orthogonality and quantum geometry: Towards a relational reconstruction of quantum theory”
2015 · Faculty of Science · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
L.B. Rodenhäuser “A matter of trust: Dynamic attitudes in epistemic logic”
2014 · Logic and Language (ILLC · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
V. Fiutek “Playing with knowledge and belief”
2013 · Logic and Language (ILLC · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Jean Paul Van Bendegem

Students on Wikidata4

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stated by Wikidata
Aybüke Özgün
stated by Wikidata
Leif Benjamin Rodenhäuser
stated by Wikidata
Shengyang Zhong
stated by Wikidata
Zoé Christoff

Teachers and mentors2

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Diederik Aerts
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Jean Paul Van Bendegem

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataJean Paul Van Bendegem

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 25 people: 21 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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undated
Free University of Brussels
studied
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel
studied
undated
University of Groningen
worked

Coauthors in OpenAlex79

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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Alexandru Baltag
67 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Fernando R. Velázquez–Quesada
16 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Diederik Aerts
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Aybüke Özgün
10 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Nick Bezhanishvili
7 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Mina Young Pedersen
7 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Nina Gierasimczuk
6 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Bob Coecke
6 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Jean Paul Van Bendegem
6 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Zoé Christoff
5 shared works

OpenAlex lists 69 more people who share a work with them.

At a glance

known as: epistemologist, logician, philosopher, mathematician
member of: Academia Europaea, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wikipedia: in 2 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaSonja Smets
stated by WikidataWikidataQ67157799
cited by a thesis recordORCID0000-0001-8019-0171stated by Wikidata · on their thesis record at University of Amsterdam (Pure)
stated by WikidataVIAF304144782726622846717
stated by WikidataGND1185104682
stated by WikidataIdRef182509079
cited by a thesis recordISNI0000000047313507stated by Wikidata · on their thesis record at University of Amsterdam (Pure)

papers

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project129255

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q67157799,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Sonja Smets: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q67157799},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Sonja Smets: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q67157799