Hans Oerlemans

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]

Johannes Oerlemans
Born	(1950-10-08) October 8, 1950 (age 75) Eethen, Netherlands
Education	Utrecht University
Awards	Spinoza Prize (2001) Louis Agassiz Medal from the European Geosciences Union (2008) Balzan Prize (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Climatology
Institutions	Utrecht University
Thesis	Some model studies on the ice-age problem (1980)
Doctoral advisor	C.J.E. Schuurmans

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.