*1999 - Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV)
*2007 - Jabir Ibn Hyyan (Geber) Award, Saudi Chemical Society
*2008 - SAE International Award for Research on Automotive Lubricants, Society of Automotive Engineering 
*2012–13 - Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF), U.S. Department of State and USAID
*2012 - Fellow, American Physical Society (APS)  "For pioneering contributions to the fields of ion-induced nucleation, ion mobility, thermochemistry and structures of molecular cluster ions, gas phase cluster polymerization, nanostructured materials and nanocatalysis"
*2013 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) "For Distinguished contributions to the fields of clusters, nucleation, nanostructured materials and nanocatalysis, particularly for the novel synthesis of advanced nanomaterials"
*2018 - Virginia Outstanding Scientist, Awarded by the Virginia Governor
*2021 - Distinguished Service Award, Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society