Prof. S. Majid Hassanizadeh is Senior Professor with the Center for Simulation Science (SIMTECH), Stuttgart University, Germany, and Emeritus Professor of Hydrogeology at the Faculty of Geosciences of Utrecht University. In recent years, he has been a visiting professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India,

His research interests are quite broad and may be summarized as theoretical, computational, and experimental studies of fluids flow and transport of contaminants, viruses, and colloids in porous media.

Majid co-founded the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) in 2008, and has been Managing Director of InterPore since then. 

Majid is elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union (2002), American Association for Advancement of Science (2007), the International Association of Advanced Materials (2023), and is a member of Academia Europaea (2021); Received honorary degree of Doctor-Ingenieur from Stuttgart University (2008); a recipient of von Humboldt Research Prize (2010), Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Medal from Soil Science Society of America (2011), Royal medal of honor of The Netherlands (2015), and Robbert E. Horton Medal from American Geophysical Union (2019). He was elected as a member of Academia Europaea in 2021.