Sonja Smets is a Belgian and Dutch logician and epistemologist known for her work in belief revision and quantum logic.
Smets earned her doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2001,[1][2] working there with physicist Diederik Aerts and psychologist Liane Gabora.
[3] Her dissertation, jointly promoted by Aerts and by mathematician and philosopher Jean Paul Van Bendegem, was The Logic of Physical Properties in Static and Dynamic Perspective.
[2] She continued on at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as a postdoctoral researcher and part-time lecturer until 2009.
[5] In 2015 the International Szklarska Poreba Center for Experimental Philosophy & Pragmasemantics awarded her their Hermann Lotze Prize, recognizing her accomplishments in four areas: quantum cognition, quantum foundations, belief revision, and truth tracking.