He was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 1998. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology (2000), the Academia Europaea (2002), the European Academy of Sciences (2003), the French Academy of Sciences (2004) and the American Association for Advancement of Sciences (2006). He was recently awarded the Sir Ronald Nyholm Medal from the SRC (2009), the Grand Prix Le Bel from the French Chemical Society (2010), the ACS Prize in Inorganic Chemistry (2014), the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize from the SRC (2016) and the Sacconi Medal from the Italian Chemical Society (2017). He is one of the associate editors of Chemical Reviews and a member of the editorial boards of several journals.
He is Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.