 In 2019, she started a three-year part-time secondary appointment as a professor at the University of Bergen.In 2012 the International Quantum Structures Association gave Smets their Birkhoff–von Neumann Prize "for her studies on quantum structures and related epistemic semantics".In 2015 the International Szklarska Poreba Center for Experimental Philosophy & Pragmasemantics awarded her their Hermann Lotze Prize, recognizing her accomplishments in four areas