Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Medal, in recognition of 'his contibutions over several decades to our understanding of rotorcraft aerodynamics;' Royal Aeronautical Society, December 2023.

Vertical Flight Society Award for Extraordinary Work in Vertical Flight, in recognition of his work in understanding the physics of the Vortex Ring State; Vertical Flight Society, February 2024.

Cierva Named Lecturer, 'Back to the Future: How Helicopter Experience can inform the Design of Future Rotorcraft'; Royal Aeronautical Society, October 2023.

John Anderson Research Fellowship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2010-2013

Governors’ Lectureship in Aerodynamics, Department of Aeronautics Imperial College London, 1999-2002

Fanmakers Company Prize for Innovation in Aerodynamics, 1991

European Rotorcraft Forum, 2022 : Ian Cheeseman Award for Best Paper of Conference to "Are eVTOL Aircraft Inherently more susceptible to the Vortex Ring State than Conventional Helicopters?" 48th European Rotorcraft Forum, Winterthur, Switzerland, 6-8 September 2022.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011 : Edwin Walker Prize for the best paper on a power industries mechanical engineering subject (with F Scheurich and T Fletcher) to "Effect of Blade Geometry on the Aerodynamic Loads Produced by Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines," in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, Vol.225, No.3, 2011, pp. 327-341.

American Helicopter Society, 2010 : Best Aerodynamics Paper (with HW Kim and C Phillips) to "The Flow Physics of Helicopter Brownout," AHS International 66th Annual Forum and Technology Display, Phoenix Arizona May 11-13 2010.

American Helicopter Society, 2008 : Best Aerodynamics Paper (with C Phillips) to "Eulerian Simulation of the Fluid Dynamics of Helicopter Brownout," AHS International 64th Annual Forum and Technology Display, Montreal Canada April 29 - May 1 2008.

Royal Aeronautical Society, 2008 : Best Paper of Conference award (with HW Kim, AR Kenyon and K Duraisamy) to “Interactional Aerodynamics and Acoustics of a Hingeless Coaxial Helicopter with an Auxiliary Propeller in Forward Flight,” 9th International Powered Lift Conference, London, July, 2008.

Korean Aerospace Industry, 2007 : Korean Industry Best Paper award (with HW Kim) to “Impact of Trim Strategy and Rotor Stiffness on Coaxial Rotor Performance,” 1st AHS/KSASS International Forum on Rotorcraft Multidisciplinary Technology, Seoul, Korea, October, 2007.

Royal Aeronautical Society, 2005 : Hafner Prize for a written contribution in the field of rotary wing aircraft (with GR Whitehouse) to "Modelling a Helicopter Rotor’s Response to Wake Encounters," in Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol.108, No.1079, 2004, pp. 15-26.

European Rotorcraft Forum, 2003 : Ian Cheeseman Award for Best Paper of Conference (with JG Leishman, FJ Perry and SJ Newman) to "Twist Effects on Rotor Behaviour in the Vortex Ring State," 28th European Rotorcraft Forum, Bristol, 17-20 September 2002.