Professor Sason Shaik was selected as a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and selected as the Advanced Materials Fellow by the International Association of Advanced Materials. 

Sason Shaik began his career at Ben-Gurion University of The Negev (1980) after PhD training (1974-1978) with Professor Epiotis, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and postdoctoral research (1978-1979) with Professor Hoffmann at Cornell University in Ithaca. His Ph.D. and postdoctoral research involved quantum chemistry. Sason became Full Professor at Ben-Gurion University in 1988. He moved to the Hebrew University in 1992 where he is the Saerree K. and Louis P. Fiedler Professor. He also served as director of the Lise-Meitner Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry for twenty years until 2017. The Center involved members from the Hebrew University, Technion, and other Israeli universities. He is a fellow of the AAAS, IAQMS, a Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences, Schrödinger Medalist of WATOC, August-Wilhelm-von Hoffman Gold Medalist of the German Chemical Society, and Gold Medalist of the Israel Chemical Society.