Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed

Vergouwen, S., & de Haro, S. (2025). Supersymmetry in the Seiberg-Witten Theory: A Window into Quantum Field Theory. Synthese, 205(2), Article 60. [DOI]

Work in Progress

Vergouwen, S., & Martens, N.M. Black Holes as Massive Spacetime (submitted)

Boone, R., Sorgner, H., Dulani, S., Pronskikh, V., Reinhart, M., Ritson, S., Schendzielorz, C., Vergouwen, S. Democratic Governance in Participatory, Large Scientific Collaborations: Between Normative Aspirations and Organizational Realities (submitted)

Interested in a draft? Contact me

Talks

2026

3rd COSMOS History & Philosophy of Cosmology Conference 2026, Athens, "Are traversable wormholes physically unreasonable?", 8 July 2026
ILMPS Conference 2026, Münich, "Are wormholes physically unreasonable?", 1 June 2026

2025

Colloquium Radboud Center for Natural Philosophy, Nijmegen, “Modelling Black Hole Mass”, 24 Nov 2025 | Recording
Ill Jornadas de Epistemologia e Historia de la Astornomia, Cordoba/online, “Black Holes as Massive Spacetime”, 3 Nov 2025
EPSA2025, "Cosmological Spacetime-Matter Distinction" symposium, Groningen, “Black Holes as Massive Spacetime”, 27-30 Aug 2025
Foundations of Physics 2025, Gdansk, "Black Holes as Massive Spacetime", 30 June 2025
Black Hole Initiative Foundations Seminar, Harvard, US, “Black Holes as Massive Spacetime”, 28 April 2025 | Recording
Lichtenberg Work-in-Progress Meeting, Bonn, "Black Holes as Massive Spacetime", together with Niels Martens, 16 April 2025
1st HPP-NL Grad Workshop, Utrecht, "Black Holes as Massive Spacetime", 21 March 2025

Before 2025

2nd COSMOS History & Philosophy of Cosmology Conference, Milan, Symposium "Cosmological Spacetime-Matter Distinction", together with Antonio Ferreiro, Alex Fleuren and Niels Martens, 10-13 September 2024
Amsterdam Meetings in Philosophy and History of Gravitation, Amsterdam, "Baby Universes and the Black Hole Information Paradox", 2021

Outreach

Vergouwen, S. (2026). Ruimtetijd, materie en het drama van zwarte gaten [Special issue on scepticism]. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 36(3)

I have written several popular scientific articles on topics in theoretical physics, published on www.quantumuniverse.nl.

Teaching

Supervision

I have been involved in the supervision of several bachelor and master students at Utrecht University, as a co-supervisor:

Thijs Hogenkamp, Bachelor Physics & Astronomy, “On Penrose’s analogy between spacetime curvature and optical lenses” (2024-2025)
Sam Meijer, Master Science & Business Management, “The analysis of singular structure in the Kerr spacetime and physically more realistic spacetimes” (2024-2025)
Anna Sajgó, Master Theoretical Physics, “The interpretation of some counterexamples to the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture” (2024-2025)

Course Involvement

Teaching assistent “Philosophy of Space and Time”, at Utrecht University, Master History and Philosophy of Science, Master Physics (2025, 2026)
Guest lecture “Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory”, at Utrecht University, Master History and Philosophy of Science (2026)
Teaching assistant “Philosophy of the Natural Sciences”, at University of Utrecht, Bachelors in natural sciences (2023-2024)
Teaching assistant "Reflection on Science", at the University of Amsterdam, Bachelors in Chemistry (2021)

My masters thesis "Emergent Solitons and the Philosophy of Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory", won the Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize. You can download it here.

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