JSPS Fellow in Japan in 2001. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences in 2003. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the ACS, the WATOC, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry at UCLA from 2009 to 2021 and is now a Distinguished Research Professor. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. He was also elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2021. Houk received the L.S.U. Distinguished Research Master Award in 1968, was named the Faculty Research Lecturer at UCLA for 1998, received the Bruylants Chair from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium in 1998, and was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. rer. nat. h. c.) from the University of Essen in Germany in 1999. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is a 2002-2012 ISI Highly Cited Researcher. Service Houk has served on the Advisory Boards of the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, and a variety of journals, including Accounts of Chemical Research, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemical and Engineering News, the Journal of Computational Chemistry, the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Chemistry - A European Journal, Topics in Current Chemistry, the Chinese Journal of Chemistry, and the Israel Journal of Chemistry. From 2018 to 2021, he was the North American Co-chair of Chemistry – A European Journal. He has been a member of the NIH Medicinal Chemistry Study Section and the NRC Board of Chemical Sciences and Technology. He was Chair of the Chemistry Section of the AAAS in 2000-2003 and served as Chair of the NIH Synthesis and Biological Chemistry-A Study Section in 2008. He co-chaired the NIH-DOE-NSF Workshop on Building Strong Academic Chemistry Departments Through Gender Equity in 2006. He was a Senior Editor of Accounts of Chemical Research from 2005 to 2015. He was Director of the UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, an NIH-supported training grant from 2002 to 2012 and is a member of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and the California NanoSystems Institute. References External links Professor Houk's Website His International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science page ISI Author Profile A Video interview of Professor Houk