Alfons van Blaaderen (born 27 October 1963) is a Dutch physicist.
[2] He attended the Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs and subsequently studied physics and chemistry at Utrecht University.
In 1992 he obtained his PhD at Utrecht University under professor A. Vrij with a dissertation titled Colloidal dispersions of (organo-)silica spheres: formation mechanism, structure and dynamics.
[2] In 2011 Van Blaaderen was awarded the Peter Debye Prize by the Edmond Hustinx Foundation.
[3] Van Blaaderen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.