Roel Sterckx FBA (born 1969) is a Flemish-British sinologist and anthropologist.
He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Clare College.
Sterckx grew up in Retie, Belgium, and attended secondary school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Mol.
He was a research fellow at Oxford (Wolfson College) and taught at the University of Arizona before returning to Cambridge in 2002.
He served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 2006 to 2012, and has been a long-serving trustee of the Needham Research Institute.