Awards/Honors of Prof. Steinfeld
- 1980 – President's List of Honor, Technion
- 1990 – Sir Charles Clores Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1994 – external page Best Paper Award, ASME Int. Solar Engineering Conference, San Francisco, USA (with J.P. Murray and E.A. Fetcher)
- 2003 – external page Best Paper Award, ASME Int. Solar Engineering Conference, Hawaii, USA (with T. Osinga, U. Frommherz, and C. Wieckert)
- 2004 – external page Best Paper Award, ASME Int. Solar Engineering Conference, Portland, USA (with J. Dahl, A. Weimer, and A. Z’Graggen)
- 2005 – external page Best Paper Award, ASME Int. Solar Engineering Conference, Orlando, USA (with R. Pitz-Paal et al.)
- 2006 – UOP/Honeywell Invitational Lecturer
- 2006 – Electrosuisse Fachliteraturpreis (with A. Meier and C. Wieckert)
- 2006 – external page ASME Clavin W. Rice Award
- 2007 – University of Minnesota Founders Lecture Award
- 2007 – external page Best Paper Award, ASME Energy Sustainability Conference, Long Beach, USA (with L. Schunk, P. Haberling, S. Wepf, D. Wuillemin, and A. Meier)
- 2008 – external page ASME John I. Yellott Award
- 2010 – Inducted to the external page Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2010 – Elected Fellow of the external page American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2011 – external page Golden Idea Award by «Idée Suisse» - Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ideen und Innovationsmanagement
- 2012 – external page Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (with P. Loutzenhiser, A. Stamatiou, W. Villasmil, and A. Meier)
- 2012 – external page European Research Council Advanced Grant
- 2012 – Plenary Speaker at the ASME Heat Transfer, Fluids, and Nano-, Micro-, and Mini-channels Conference, Puerto Rico, USA
- 2013 – external page ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
- 2013 – 75th Anniversary Medal of the external page ASME Heat Transfer Division
- 2013 – external page Journal of Solar Energy Best Paper Award (with T. Cooper, F. Dähler F., G. Ambrosetti, and A. Pedretti)
- 2013 – external page Farrington Daniels Award by the International Solar Energy Society
- 2013 – Plenary Speaker at the Solar World Congress 2013, Cancun, Mexico
- 2014 – Elected to the Scientific Council of the external page International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer
- 2015 – external page AIREG Award by the German Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy
- 2015 – Elected to the Board of Directors of the external page International Solar Energy Society
- 2016 – external page Best Paper Award, TMS−The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (with N. Tzouganatos, C. Wieckert, M. Dell’amico, J. Hinkley)
- 2016 – external page Inducted to the Pan-American Academy of Engineering
- 2016 – external page ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award
- 2017 – Chinese Academy of Sciences – President's International Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists
- 2017 – Plenary Speaker at the 9th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Iguazu, Brazil
- 2017 – Plenary Speaker at the ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Bellevue, WA, USA
- 2017 – Holder of the Boelter Chair in Engineering at UCLA (Visiting Professorship during Sabbatical)
- 2017 – external page Achievement through Action Award by the International Solar Energy Society
- 2020 – Download AIChE Symposium in Honour of Prof. Steinfeld on his 60th Birthday (PDF, 5.8 MB)
- 2021 – Energy Globe World Award 2021 for the EU-Project “Sun-to-Liquid”
- 2021 – Download SOLARIS Life-Long Contribution Award, Japan
- 2021 – Elected external page Fellow of the International Solar Energy Society
- 2022 – external page SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award for the EU-Project "Sun-to-Liquid"
- 2022 – external page Falling Walls’s Engineering and Technology Winner
- 2022 – AIChE Sustainable Engineering Research Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- 2022 – external page Oxford Martin School Lecture
- 2023 – Elected to the Board of Directors of the external page Pan-American Academy of Engineering
- 2023 – Elected to the Executive Committee of the external page International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer
- 2023 – Festschrift in Solar Energy Journal
- 2024 – The Yogi and Lovely Goswami Achievement Award in Energy and Sustainability
- 2024 – external page Symposium to honor Prof. Steinfeld at the ASME 18th International Conference on Energy Sustainability
- 2024 – SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award