| Jan de Boer | |
| Birth Date: | 29 June 1967 |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Education: | University of Groningen, Utrecht University |
| Occupation: | Physicist |
| Years Active: | 1984–present |
| Employer: | University of Amsterdam |
Jan de Boer (born 29 June 1967, in Doniawerstal) is a Dutch theoretical physicist specializing in string theory.[1] After a double master's degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Groningen, De Boer obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in 1993 with the dissertation Extended conformal symmetry in non-critical string theory. He continued his studies at Stony Brook University and University of California, Berkeley.
Since 2000 he has been professor of theoretical physics at the University of Amsterdam.[2] [3]
From 1946 to 1981 an unrelated Jan de Boer (1911–2010) was professor of theoretical physics at the same department of the University of Amsterdam. His specialty was thermodynamics.[4]