Major awards include the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal, the 2018 Bose Research Fellow, the 2020 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship, the 2021 Fellow of Optica, the 2022 Humboldt Professorship, and the Web of Science/Clarivate's "Highly Cited Researcher" (2021: Cross-Field; 2022: Physics ).Englund contributed to several disruptive deep-tech companies: Dust Identity, Inc (co-founder) that focuses on supply chain security and linking unique physical objects to block-chain-secured virtual objects; LightMatter (scientific advisor) that focuses on revolutionizing high-performance computing in machine learning applications; QuEra Computing (co-founder) that is developing the world’s largest quantum simulators and quantum computers; and Quantum Network Technologies (QNT) focused on building the quantum internet with satellite-assisted quantum repeater links.