Johannes Oerlemans#
| Membership Number: | 405 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~oerle102/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Foundation GlaciersAlive
, Founding and Board Member
- 2019 Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Utrecht University
- 1997 - 2001; 2004 - 2006 Director, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University
- 1989 - 2019 Professor of Meteorology, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University
- 1986 - 1988 (part-time) Research position at the Alfred-Wegener Institut für Polarforschung (Bremerhaven)
- 1982 - 1986 (part-time) Reader at the University of Leuven (Department of Physics)
- 1980 - 1989 Scientist at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University
- 1980 Ph. D. (summa cum laude); title of the dissertation: SOME MODEL STUDIES ON THE ICE AGE PROBLEM. Promotor: Prof. Dr. C.J.E. Schuurmans
- 1976 - 1980 Junior scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; in September-December 1979 visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Climatology
- Dynamic meteorology
- Glaciology
- Palaeoclimatology
- Sea level change
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001 Recipient of the NWO-SPINOZA award
- 2004 Physica-prijs, The Netherlands' Physical Society
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Stockholm
- 2007 Academy Professorship, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal, European Geosciences Union
- 2009 Elected member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research
- 2010 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2019 Richardson Medal, International Glaciological Society
- 2022 Balzan Prize
