kecskés received a senior fellowship from the rockefeller foundation in the rockefeller research center in bellagio, italy in 2004, a senior fellowship from the mitteleuropa foundation, bolzano, italy in 2005, a honorary professorship from zhejiang university, hangzhou in 2009, a yunshan chair professorship from guangdong university of foreign studies, guangzhou, china in 2011, a distinguished visiting professorship from monash university, melbourne, australia in 2013 and a guest professorship from the university of messina in may, 2017 and may, 2019. he was the recipient of the chancellor’s excellence in research award of state university of new york in 2014. he has been an honorary professor at the national research tomsk state university, russia since 2015 where a graduate student award and scholarship was named after him in 2016.