Majid Hassanizadeh

Who is Majid Hassanizadeh?

Seyed Majid Hassanizadeh is a professor of hydrogeology at Utrecht University, where he heads the Hydrogeology group at the Faculty of Geosciences. He also is a senior advisor with the Soil and Groundwater Department of Deltares. His research focuses on flow of fluids and transport of solutes and colloids in porous media, through theory development, experimental studies, and modeling work. In particular, he focuses on two-phase flow, reactive transport in variably-saturated porous media, transport of micro-organisms, and biodegradation.

Formerly, he has been with Abadan Institute of Technology, Project Manager with Yekom Consulting Engineers, senior researcher with the National Institute of Public Health and Environment, RIVM, Associate Professor and later Professor with the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology. He has also held visiting faculty appointments at Notre Dame University, US, University of Bordeaux, France, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Stuttgart University, Germany.

He has contributed to more than 200 publications in journals, books, or as technical reports.