text: * 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