Sylvia Wenmackers

Sylvia Wenmackers is an associate professor at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science within the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on foundational questions in mathematics, probability theory, and cosmology, with a particular emphasis on non-Archimedean probability frameworks and their applications in philosophy of science. She also investigates topics such as uncertainty communication in policy contexts and agent-based models of scientific communities.

Her academic roles include membership in the LIMNI institute for micro- and nanoscale integration, reflecting her interdisciplinary interests. Notable publications include work on infinite subset comparisons in natural numbers, branching time structures with infinitesimal probabilities, and critiques of citation bias in large language models.

Wenmackers has developed innovative approaches to resolve paradoxes in probability theory using non-standard analysis, and her work bridges formal methods with empirical studies in science communication. She frequently contributes to public engagement through fiction writing and interviews, emphasizing the societal impact of scientific thought.