- The hydrology Prize for the years 1994 to 1997 of the Netherlands Hydrological Society for the best publication entitled “Modeling hydraulic conductivity of a complex confining layer at various spatial scales” published in Water Resources Research 32(8).
- EGU Union Keynote entitled “Water of the Earth” as part of the Union Keynote series “Faces of the Earth”. April 29, 2014: http://client.cntv.at/EGU2014/?play=38
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2016)
- Highly-Cited Researcher, category Cross-field (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and category Geosciences (2023): scientists with multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations on Web of Science
- ERC Advanced Grant “GEOWAT: A Global Assessment of the Limits of Groundwater Use” (2021)
- The Henry Darcy Medal of the Hydrological Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (2023). See the associated Darcy Lecture: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/sessionprogramme/US_GDB_MAL_PC
- Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (2023)
- The American Geophysical Union Hydrological Sciences Award (2023)