text: * Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
  * Fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences
  * Foreign Fellow of Korean Academy of Sciences
  * Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences
  * Fellow of the Royal Society, London (July 2006)
  * Honorary Life Fellow King's College, Cambridge, UK (2007)
  * Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society (1997)
  * Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015)