BSc, Chemical Physics, University of Bristol, 1982

Ph.D, Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1987

Beilby Medal, 1995

Miller Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

Tilden Lectureship and Silver Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000

Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society, 2014

Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, 2015