Honors, Awards, and Personal Grants: 

- Elected Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials, elected June 2023.
- VAJRA (Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty) Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Fall 2021 – Fall 2024.
- Bharat Singh Endowment Lecturer of 2021, IIT Roorkee, India, 15 September 2021.
- Elected as a member of Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), 2021
- Robert E. Horton Medal for Lifetime Achievements in Hydrology, awarded by American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019
- Mercator Professor, Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart University, 2019-2020.
- Simons Foundation Fellowship, Issac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, February-June 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, 2012.
- Don and Betty Kirkham Award, awarded by Soil Science Society of America, 2011.
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Constituted a prize of 60,000 Euro for collaborative research, March 2010.
- Commemorative Medal Award as Distinguished Lecturer at the 25th Anniversary of Establishment of The Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences of FORTH Foundation, Greece, 2009.
- Honorary degree of Doctor-Ingenieur from Stuttgart University, November 2008.
- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected November 2007.
- Elected 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 Superieure d'Arts et Metiers) 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
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education Honorary Prize to the first ranking students of all engineering schools in Iran, 1975
- Pahlavi University Fellowship to high ranking students in Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran, 1970-1975