2020 Fellow of the Royal Society 2021 Ranked 3rd in the Reuters list of the world’s top climate scientists 2020 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal of the European Geosciences Union. 2019 Alexander von Humbold Research Award 2017− Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society 2014−19 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. 2014-20 Highly cited researcher in Geosciences, Thompson Reuters (awarded every year since 2014). 2017 Google Scholar Classic paper award. 2015 Top 10 most cited author, Carbon Brief 2007 Lead author of the IPCC when IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1990 PhD research fellowship, IRSIA, Belgium