1985/1989: ENRICO PERSICO FELLOWSHIPS (ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI)
Motivation: among the best 10 undergraduate students in physics in Rome.

2008 APS FELLOW
Citation: For his original applications of multifractal concepts, numerical simulations, and models to obtain insight into the dynamics of fully developed turbulence. Nominated by: Statistical & Nonlinear Physics (GSNP)

  
2010 EUROMECH FELLOW
Citation: For his major contribution to the study of fully developed turbulence, the original use of multi-fractal concepts, the development of innovative numerical simulations for single phase and multiphase flows