1994: Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts
2001: Recipient of the NWO-SPINOZA award
2004: Physica-prijs,  The Netherlands' Physical Society
2007: Doctor Honoris Causa,  University of Stockholm
2007: Academy Professorship,  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008: Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal , European Geosciences Union (previously named Louis Agassiz Medal)
2009: Elected member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research
2010: Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw
2019: Richardson Medal, International Glaciological Society

2022: The Balzan Prize