 Poliakoff was awarded the Lord Lewis Prize in 2016 for his work concerning the applications of supercritical fluids, and for his work in the development of science policy within the EU and globally.In 2017 Poliakoff was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).In 2019, he was awarded the Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize for science communication for his work on the "Periodic Videos".