He won a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2009 and the Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Medal in 2011 and Ludwig Mond Prize in 2016 in recognition of his research in molecular magnetism. He is on the Board of Directors of the European Institute for Molecular Magnetism, and is currently Head of School of Chemistry at Manchester for his sins. His spin-out company, Sci-Tron Ltd, won the RSC Emerging Technologies Prize in Materials in 2016.