Prof. dr. ir. Majid Hassanizadeh

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Prof. dr. ir. Majid Hassanizadeh

Professor
Hydrogeology
s.m.hassanizadeh@uu.nl

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Total no. of citations: Scopus >11900, Google Scholar >18300
h-index: Scopus 57; Google Scholar 66; i10-index: 184 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/majid-hassanizadeh-8b481815/

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