Hans Oerlemans

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|10|08}}

| birth_place = Eethen, Netherlands

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| fields = Climatology

| workplaces = Utrecht University

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| education = Utrecht University

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| 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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| awards = Spinoza Prize {{small|(2001)}}
Louis Agassiz Medal from the European Geosciences Union {{small|(2008)}}
Balzan Prize {{small|(2022)}}

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Johannes "Hans" Oerlemans (born October 8, 1950 in Eethen){{cite web|url=https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/1512/2/2/0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107132141/https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/1512/2/2/0 |title=Prof.dr. J. Oerlemans (1950 - ) |language=nl |publisher=Utrecht University |date= |archive-date=November 7, 2020}} is a Dutch climatologist specialized in glaciology and sea level.{{Cite web|url=https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/louis-agassiz/2008/johannes-oerlemans/|title=EGU|website=European Geosciences Union (EGU)|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-11-04}} He has been a professor of meteorology in the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Utrecht University since 1989.{{Cite web|url=http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~oerle102/|title=Johannes Oerlemans|website=www.staff.science.uu.nl|access-date=2017-11-03}}

He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4608 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613190735/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4608 |title=Hans Oerlemans |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=13 June 2020}} In 2001 he won the Spinoza Prize.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/spinoza+prize/spinoza+laureates/overview+in+alphabetical+order/hans+oerlemans |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613190957/https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/spinoza+prize/spinoza+laureates/overview+in+alphabetical+order/hans+oerlemans |title=Prof. J. (Hans) Oerlemans |publisher=Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research |date= |archive-date=13 June 2020}} In 2010 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.{{cite web|url=https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/leeuw-voor-apenonderzoeker~b19f0594/ |title=Leeuw voor apenonderzoeker |language=nl |publisher=Trouw |date=April 29, 2010 |accessdate=November 7, 2020}} In 2022 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Glaciation and Ice Sheet Dynamics together with Dorthe Dahl-Jensen.