* Hellman Fellow, Chris & Warren Hellman Young Faculty Award, 2002
* Faculty Career Development Award, Academic Senate, UCSD, 2003
* Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2004
* Lifetime Honorary Member, Israel Chemical Society, 2009
* Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, since 2009
* Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award, 2009
* Dalton Transactions European / African Lectureship Award, 2010 
* Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011
* JSPS Professorship, "Brain Circulation Project", Nagoya Institute of Technology, 2015
* Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award, Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
* Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
* L.A. Chugaev Commemorative Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017