[*]
2015 – Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Permanent Committee
[*]2015 – Elected Member of the American Physical Society (APS)
[*]2014 – Member of the Board on Physics & Astronomy (BPA) of the National Academies
[*]2013 – Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society, for the book “How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?” (2010)
[*]2013 – Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia
[*]2012 – Elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
[*]2012 – Galileo Galilei Chair (Cattedra Galileiana) Award, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
[*]2011 – Sackler Lecturer in Astronomy, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands
[*]2011 – Las Cumbres Observatory Prize Lecturer in Astrophysics, UC Santa Barbara
[*]2009 – Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena
[*]2007 – Inaugural Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) End of Year Lecturer
[*]2007 – Merle Kingsley Distinguished Visitor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
[*]2006/7 – John Bahcall Lecturer at Tel Aviv University University
[*]2006 – Salpeter Lectureship at Cornell University
[*]2004 – Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Physics and the Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
[*]2002 –
Guggenheim Fellowship
[*]1987 – The Kennedy Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem