Academic awards:
Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2X: (2020, 2022)
Otto Mønsted Foundation Gæsteprofessorater fellow, (2020-2024)

Graduate and Post-doctoral Fellowships:
Selected as Whitaker Scholar (full support for international postdoctoral work) (2011; declined)
Selected as NSF Plant Systems Biology IGERT fellow (full support) (Dec 2007 – Dec 2010)
Selected as an HHMI Med-Into-Grad fellow, providing short-term clinical training in neurology and neurometabolic disorders (Fall 2009 – Winter 2010)
Selected for the Whitaker Fellowship (2009; declined)
Fulbright Fellow for 2008 -2009 (9 months, full support for research at Weizmann Institute, Israel)
NSF graduate fellowship honorable mention (2x: 2007 & 2008)

Lawrence Fellowship short list (2008; declined)
Research and Conference Awards:
Winning talk at the 2008 HHMI Interfaces conference
Among >300 presenters, selected as semi-finalist in the 2006 ABRF conference poster contest
Recipient of the ORCA research fellowship, and research was one of only a few chosen from hundreds of awardees to be spotlighted on the fellowship website (2005 – 2006)
Recipient of the Undergraduate Research Award for the BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2x: Winter and Fall 2004)
Co-author of poster chosen as finalist at the 2004 ABRF conference
Recipient of appointment to the Research Participation Program at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Summer 2004)