In 2011, Hoodbhoy joined LUMS while also working as a researcher with Princeton University and as copa columnist with the "Express Tribune". His contract with LUMS was terminated in 2013 which resulted in a controversy. He is a sponsor of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", and a member of the monitoring panel on terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists. Hoodbhoy has won several awards including the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics (1984); the Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science (2003); the Burton Award (2010) from the American Physical Society. In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by "Foreign Policy". In 2013, he was made a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament.