- 2024 Elected to the Royal Society (UK)
- 2020: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 2019: Harold Jeffreys Lectureship, Royal Astronomical Society
- 2018: Paolo Farinella Prize
- 2015: Overseas Visiting Scholarship, St John’s College, Cambridge
- 2011: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Visiting Fellow
- 2011: Merle A. Tuve Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Institute of Washington
- 2007: Macelwane mdeal of the American Geophysical Union
- 2007: Urey Prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (talk (PDF))
- 2001: Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 2001: President’s Award of the Geological Society
- 1998 – 2001: Junior Research Fellowship, Magdalene College, Cambridge