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)

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Talks

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.

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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