- Since 01 July 2022 Prof. Dr. Hamid Aït Abderrahim is the General Manager of the MYRRHA INPO, Brussels, Belgium
- He was Deputy Director-General of SCK CEN, the Belgian nuclear research center, from July 2010 till June 2022
- Since 1998, he is the director of the MYRRHA project, an accelerator driven system (ADS)
- He lectures reactor physics and nuclear engineering at the "Université Catholique de Louvain"
- Member of the Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy (SAGNE) to Director-General of IAEA
- Member of the Scientific Council of EDF
- In February 2015 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania
- In April 2014 he was granted “Grand Officer in the Crown Order” by His Majesty King Philippe of Belgium