 In 2001, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate by Saarland University, Germany.With Radhia Cousot, he received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2013 and the IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills award in 2014, “For the invention of ‘abstract interpretation’, development of tool support, and its practical application”.He received a Humboldt Research Award in 2008 and the 2018 IEEE John von Neumann Medal "for introducing abstract interpretation, a powerful framework for automatically calculating program properties with broad application to verification and optimisation".