Honors and Awards
2017 Royal Photographic Society Award for Scientific Imaging 2012 Paul Harris Fellow, Florence Rotary Club
2011 Honored Alumnus of the 2011 UCSD Alumni Celebration: 50 Years/50 Leaders
2010 Best Article Award for the Peer-reviewed paper “Tangible Interfaces for Art Restoration,” IGI Global’s Fourth Annual Excellence in Research Journal Awards
2009 Laurea Honoris Causa: “Doctor in Letters,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2009 Keynote speaker for the Spring Convocation Address for the Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2009 Participation upon invitation in the first National Science Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation sponsored workshop on "Chemistry and Materials Research at the Interface between Science and Art," Arlington, VA
2009 Awarded the Filippo Mazzei Prize “The Bridge,” by the American University of Rome
2008 Alumnus of the Year, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego
2008-2012 National Geographic Society Fellow
2007 Appointed Scientific Director for “The Battle of Anghiari” research project, by the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage, Francesco Rutelli
2007 Alumnus of the year 2006, Alumni Association, University of California, San Diego
2005 Professional Achievement Award, Department of Bio-engineering, University of California, San Diego