*2023 - Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize
*2023 - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*2022 - Global Energy Prize
*2021 - Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 (in three different disciplines: chemistry, physics, and materials science)
*2019 - DOE Ten at Ten Scientific Ideas Award for the first demonstration of all-solid-state solar cells using halide perovskite materials.
*2018 - American Institute of Chemistry Chemical Pioneer Award 
*2017 - Hershel and Hilda Rich Visiting Professorship, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 
*2017 - University of Crete - Honorary Doctorate Degree
*2016 - Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation
*2016 – American Physical Society (APS) Fellow  
*2016 - APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
*2016 – American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Inorganic Chemistry 
*2015 - ENI Award for the "Renewable Energy Prize" category
*2015 - Awarded Wilhelm Manchot Professorship, Technical University of Munich
*2015 - Elected Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society
*2015 - Royal Chemical Society De Gennes Prize  
*2014 – Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal
*2014 - International Thermoelectric Society Outstanding Achievement Award
*2014 - Einstein Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences  
*2013 - Cheetham Lecturer Award, University of California Santa Barbara
*2012 - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
*2010 - MRS Fellow 
*2006 - Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor, Northwestern University
*2003 - Morley Medal, American Chemical Society, Cleveland Section 
*2003 - Alexander von Humboldt Prize
*2002 - John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
*2001 - University Distinguished Professor MSU
*2000 - Sigma Xi Senior Meritorious Faculty Award
*1998 - Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award
*1993-1998 - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar
*1991-1993 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (see Sloan Fellows) 
*1992-1994 - Beckman Young Investigator
*1990 - ACS Inorganic Chemistry Division Award, EXXON Faculty Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry
*1989-1994 - Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation