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