Fadin is an expert in quantum field theory (QFT) and an author of more than 190 academic papers including 2 monographs,[5] which have collected over 12 000 citations.

[6] In 2001 he received The Humboldt Prize in physics and in 2006 he was given the Russian Federation honorific title "Заслуженный работник высшей школы Российской Федерации".

In 2015 Victor Fadin was awarded the Pomeranchuk Prize "for his results devoted to high energy processes in QED and QCD".

He worked out the structure function method for calculation of QED radiative corrections to cross sections of electron-positron annihilation and electron-nucleus scattering processes.

Professor Fadin's main contributions to QCD comprise the description of the coherence effects in the soft gluon emission and the study of the energy behavior of amplitudes in the Regge limit.