S. Majid Hassanizadeh

Professor of Hydrogeology at the Faculty of Geosciences of Utrecht University and Senior Advisor with Soil and Groundwater Department of TNO-Infrastructure and Environment. Graduated with honors from the Department of Civil Engineering of Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran in 1975. Earned M.E.in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979 at the Department of Civil Engineering of Princeton University. Work experience as Assistant Professor with the Abadan Institute of Technology (Iran, 1979-1982), Project Manager with the Yekom Consulting Engineers (Iran, 1982-1984), Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Technical and Engineering University of Tehran (Iran, 1982-1984), senior researcher with the National Institute of Public Health and Environment, RIVM (Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 1984-1995), Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Geology of Utrecht University (The Netherlands, 1990-1994), Associate Professor (1995-2001) and later Professor(2001-2003) with the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology.

More than More than 150 publications in journals, books, conference proceedings, or as technical reports. Editor of Advances in Water Resources from 1991 till 2001 and now on the editorial boards of Transport in Porous Media (since 1989), Advances in Water Resources (since 1988), The Open Hydrology Journal (since 2007), and The Open Civil Engineering Journal (since 2007), Associate Editor of Vadoze Zone Journal (since 2002), Associate Editor of Water Resources Research (since 2004), and member of International Advisory Board of Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (since 2004). Member of American Geophysical Union, American Association for Advancement of Science, Soil Science Society of America, European Geophysical Union, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Association for Environmental Hydrology, and The Netherlands Hydrological Society. Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union in 2002 and Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science in 2007. Received honorary degree of Doctor-Ingenieur from Stuttgart University, 2008.

 Research Interests 

• Theories of flow and transport in porous media -- averaging-thermodynamic methods
• Density-dependent flow and transport in porous media
• Modeling transport of micro-organisms in soil
• Modeling biodegradation and bioremediation processes
• Disposal of radioactive waste in geological formations -- geohydrological aspects
• Theories of watershed flow processes -- averaging-thermodynamic methods
   

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• For additional information and list of publications see Curriculum Vitae.