In 1992, he received the Landau prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2004, he received the Simon Memorial Award in low-temperature physics for his "fundamental research on the role of symmetry in low-temperature physics, and applications in Cosmology, quantum gravity, quantum field theory and particle physics" (Eulogy). from 2003 to 2006 he was the leader of the European science Foundation, "Cosmology in the Laboratory". Volovik is the author of several books and of more than 340 scientific journal publications.