He was awarded the 2012 J&E Hall Gold Medal of the Institute of Refrigeration, the 2013 Brian Pippard Prize of the Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group and the 2019 James Joule Medal of the Institute of Physics. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2010, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2015, a Fellow of the Optical Society of Amercia (now Optica) in 2016 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2019. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE. He has served on the editoral boards of the Journals Superconductor Science and Technology (IoP), Optics Express (OPG) and Royal Society Open Science (Royal Society of London). He joined the editorial board of Optica (OPG) from April 2019. He is editor of a major title in the Springer Quantum Science and Technology Series, Superconducting Devices in Quantum Optics, published in spring 2016. He was Guest Professor at the Royal Insitute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in August 2018 through the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. He held a European Reserch Council Consolidator Grant from 2015-2019 and a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2018-19. He was co-chair of the European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS 2019, at the Scottish Event Campus, SEC, in Glasgow in September 2019 and the Single Photon Workshop, SPW2024, in Edinburgh in November 2024