Wil Roebroeks (born 5 May 1955) is the professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

[4] He began his academic career as a history student at the Radboud University Nijmegen where he graduated cum laude in 1979.

[5][6] In another article in the same journal Roebroeks published on the discovery of stone tools in Great Britain, older than expected and contradicting the previously held belief that Northern Europe was settled much later than the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

The jury report highlighted his various original contributions to the study of human prehistory and called him the most prominent Dutch archaeologist nationally and internationally.

[9] In 2009 Roebroeks again made the international news with his work on Krijn, the first Dutch Neanderthal fossil.