| Johannes Oerlemans | |
| Birth Date: | 8 October 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Eethen, Netherlands |
| Fields: | Climatology |
| Workplaces: | Utrecht University |
| Education: | Utrecht University |
| Thesis Title: | Some model studies on the ice-age problem |
| Thesis Url: | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009062407 |
| Thesis Year: | 1980 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | C.J.E. Schuurmans |
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Johannes "Hans" Oerlemans (born October 8, 1950 in Eethen)[1] is a Dutch climatologist specialized in glaciology and sea level.[2] He has been a professor of meteorology in the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Utrecht University since 1989.[1] [3]
He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.[4] In 2001 he won the Spinoza Prize.[5] In 2010 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[6] In 2022 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Glaciation and Ice Sheet Dynamics together with Dorthe Dahl-Jensen.