Current position
Rineke Verbrugge is a pioneer in building bridges between logic and cognitive science. Specifically, she was the first one to combine dynamic epistemic logic and computational cognitive modeling to study theory of mind. Verbrugge is a full professor, holding the chair of Logic and Cognition at the University of Groningen’s Bernoulli Institute. Since 2002, she has been the leader of the Multi-agent Systems research group in Groningen, first as an associate professor and since 2009 as a full professor.

Education and past positions
In 1988, Rineke Verbrugge received an MSc (cum laude) followed in 1993 by a PhD, both in Logic and Foundations of Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. Subsequently, she was post-doc at the Charles University of Prague and the University of Gothenburg, visiting assistant professor at MIT in Cambridge (MA), and assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. During her time at MIT, she changed her field of research from mathematical logic to artificial intelligence, focusing on logics for multi-agent systems.

Publishing
Verbrugge has published more than 200 peer-reviewed international publications and a monograph, Teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems: A Formal Approach, written together with Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz and published by Wiley in 2010. Her work is widely cited, her current Google Scholar h-index being 25. Her work with Elske van der Vaart and Charlotte Hemelrijk on corvids’ social cognition was reported by Michael Balter in Science (March 1, 2012).

Research projects
Together with Jan van Eijck, she has led the large international NIAS theme group “Games, Action, and Social Software” (2006-2007), resulting among others in two edited volumes, Discourses on Social Software (Amsterdam University Press, 2009) and Games, Actions and Social Software (Springer LNCS, 2012). Together with Johan van Benthem and Sujata Ghosh, she has led the NWO-EW project “Strategies in multi-agent systems: from implicit to implementable” (2009-2012), leading to the book Models of Strategic Reasoning: Logics, Games, and Communities (Springer 2015). In 2009-2014, Verbrugge has led her NWO Vici-project “Cognitive systems in interaction: Logical and computational models of higher-order social cognition”, which has been very successful, leading to three PhDs and 125 publications. Since 2019, Verbrugge is co-applicant of the ten-year long national Gravitation project Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect, for which she is the director of PhD training.

Invited lectures
As examples of international recognition, Rineke Verbrugge has been invited to speak at around 60 international occasions, for example as keynote speaker at the 14th International Conferences on Theoretical Approaches to Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2013), at the 5th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), and for 500 people at the popular scientific series Science and Cocktails in Copenhagen in 2016. More recently, she has been a keynote speaker at the 14th international conference on Advances in Modal Logic (AiML 2022) and the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023). She was also invited to present the yearly Lindström Lectures in Gothenburg in 2023.

Editing
Verbrugge is associate editor of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI), and member of the editorial board of Computability, the Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, and Theoria. She has been co-editor of six books and several special issues of journals, for example, on the theme “Logic and Cognition” for the JoLLI and on the theme “Lying in logic, language and cognition” for Topics in Cognitive Science.

Awards
In 2008, Verbrugge was awarded an NWO Vici grant in the innovational research incentives scheme for her five year, multi-person research project “Cognitive systems in interaction: Logical and computational models of higher-order social cognition” (2009-2014). In 2009, she received an NWO Aspasia grant. Also in 2009, she was awarded the Faculty Award for “Best Educator” of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen, which employs around 300 lecturers. In 2013, her paper with Nils Bulling and Sujata Ghosh,“Reaching your goals without spilling the beans: Boolean secrecy games”, won the Best Paper Prize at the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. Since 2016, Rineke Verbrugge has been an elected member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, KHMW). Since 2021, Verbrugge is an elected member of the KNAW (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen / Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).