- 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/session/47496
- Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (2023)
- The American Geophysical Union Hydrological Sciences Award (2023)
Prizes
The AGU Hydrologic Sciences Award13 Dec 2023
Henry Darcy Medal25 Apr 2023
Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)2023
ERC Advanced Grant12 Apr 2021
Elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union2016
A software framework for construction of process-based stochastic spatio-temporal models and data assimilation2012
Netherlands Hydrology Prize1994