Honors, Awards, and Personal Grants: 

• Elected Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials, elected June 2023.
• Elected as a member of Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), 2021
• Robert E. Horton Medal for Lifetime Achievements in Hydrology, AGU, 2019
• Simons Foundation Fellowship, For a two-month stay at Issac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, Awarded February 2016.
• Royal Medal of Honor of The Netherlands, Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw (Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion), July 2015
• Advanced Investigator Research Grant of ca 2.4 Million Euro, awarded by European Research Council, July 2013.
• Henry Dacry Distinguished Lecturer 2012, Selected by US National Ground Water Association. Lecture titles: Capillarity in porous media on micro- and macro-scale, revisited; and Transport of viruses in partially-saturated soil and groundwater. 80 Invited lectures given at 55 places
• around the world (http://www.geo.uu.nl/hydrogeology/news/Darcy%20Lectures%202012%20(Majid).pdf).
• Don and Betty Kirkham Award, awarded by Soil Science Society of America, 2011.
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, March 2010.
• Commemorative Medal Award as Distinguished Lecturer at the 25^th Anniversary of Establishment of The Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) of FORTH Foundation, Greece, 2009.
• Honorary degree of Doctor-Ingenieur from Stuttgart University, November 2008.
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected November 2007.
• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), elected January 2002.
• Visiting Scientist Fellowship, awarded by EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal Lausanne) Switzerland (September – October 2007)
• Visiting Scientist Fellowship, awarded by ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers) through TREFLE Laboratory, Bordeaux, France (February – April 2007)
• Elected by participants of Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media in 2000 to become the chair of GRC 2004
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Hydrogeology (professorship based on merit), Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands, 2001-2003
• Joint UK-Dutch Research Grant awarded by the NWO and the British Council to I. Murdoch (U. of Strathclyde, Scotland) and S.M. Hassanizadeh,1999
• Appointed as Visiting Professor at Jilin University (formerly Changchun University of Science and Technology); 3 July 1998
• Collaborative Research Grant awarded by the NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division to S.M. Hassanizadeh, M.A. Celia (Princeton University), C.D. Montemagno (Cornell University),1995-1997
• Visiting Scientist Fellowship, awarded by Department of Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US, January – August 1994
• Collaborative Research Grant awarded by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division to W.G. Gray (U. of Notre Dame), S.M. Hassanizadeh, A.F.B. Tompson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories),1988-1992
• George Van-Ness Lothrop Fellowship to outstanding senior graduate students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Princeton University, 1977-1978
• Pahlavi University Fellowship to high ranking students in Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran, 1970-1975
• Ministry of Science and Higher Education Honorary Prize to the first ranking students of all engineering schools in Iran, 1975 

See https://www.uu.nl/staff/cv.aspx?Medewerker=SMHassanizadeh&Lng=EN