Slavik Tabakov holds numerous international Honorary and Visiting Academic positions (Professor and Reader). He is Fellow of: the UK Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (1998); the UK Higher Education Academy (2007), the International Organization for Medical Physics (2013). He has been awarded with the EU Leonardo da Vinci Award (2004) and the IOMP Harold Johns Medal (2006), and has also received Honorary Medals and Diplomas from: the Bulgarian Society of Biomedical Physics and Engineering (1996), the Lithuanian University of Technology, Kaunas (2000), the Thai Medical Physics Society (2002), the Middle East Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (2013). He has also received the King’s College London Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the MPEC Presidential Prize of IPEM, UK (2015), and the Honorary Membership of the Association of Medical Physicists in India (2015). The Plovdiv Medical University bestowed upon him their highest honour - Doctor Honoris Causa degree in 2015.