Prizes, Awards and Recognitions
| 1989 | Catalonian Medal for Research "Narcís Monturiol" by the Catalonian Government |
| 1995 | Medal to Professional Merit of Spanish Institution of Civil Engineers |
| 1996 | Eric Reissner Medal in Computational Structural Mechanics. |
| 1998 | Narcis Monturiol Award from the Catalonian Government to the Scientific Merit of CIMNE |
| 1999 | Accesit to the City of Barcelona Award in Technological Research |
| 2000 | Award of the Asociación Argentina de Mecánica Computacional (AMCA) |
| 2000 | Award of the Spanish Group for Fracture Mechanics |
| 2001 | Medal of the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona to Professional Achievements |
| 2002 | City of Barcelona Award in Technological Research |
| 2002 | Award for Excellence for Outstanding Paper in Engng. Computations. Emerald Literati Club |
| 2004 | Duran i Farell Award to the best Research and Technology Project of the University Politécnica de Cataluña |
| 2004 | University of Jyväskylä Medal (Finland) |
| 2005 | Honorary Member of Portuguese Assoc. for Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics (APMTAC) |
| 2007 | Award from the Spanish Association for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) |
| 2008 | Grand Prize by the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES) |
| 2009 | Literati Award for Excellence to the best Paper published in Engineering Computations |
| 2009 | O.C. Zienkiewicz Medal of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics (PACM) |
| 2009 | Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award of ASME |
| 2009 | JSME Computational Mechanics Award |
| 2010 | Advanced Grant del European Research Council of the European Commission |
| 2010 | International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), Gauss-Newton Medal |
| 2013 | Argentinian Award “Dr. Luis Federico Leloir” to the International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation |
| 2014 | Proof of Concept of the European Research Council of the European Com mission |
| 2016 | Proof of Concept of the European Research Council of the European Commission |
| 2018 | Award for the contribution to the development of the Discrete Elements Method (DEM) , Academy of Sciences of Cuba |
| 2019 | Ildefons Cerdà Medal 2019 , Institute of Civil Engineers in Spain (Catalonian Branch) |
| 2019-2023 | Scientific Director of CIMNE as a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence in Spain |
| 2020 | Ritz-Galerkim Medal of European Community for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) |
| 2024 | Spanish National Research Award 2024 in the Leonardo Torres Quevedo Category in Engineering, Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities of Spain |
| HONORARY DOCTORATES AND FELLOWSHIPS | ||
| 1998 | Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) | |
| 2000 | Doctor Honoris Causa, Ovidius University, Constanza, Rumania | |
| 2007 | Honorary Fellow of Swansea University (UK) | |
| 2012 | Doctor Honoris Causa, INSA-Lyon, France | |
| 2013 | Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Las Villas, Cuba | |
| 2020 | Doctor Honoris Causa, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) | |
| ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP | ||
| 1998 | Member of Royal Academy of Doctors (Barcelona) | |
| 2006 | Foreign Member of the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Istituto Lombardo, Milan (Italy) | |
| 2022 | Elected as Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences | |