Award Erasmus Award 2013, EAGE Award Barrabé 2012, Société Géologique de France Adion Medal 2012, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur AGU Fellow 2012. Grand Award Jaffé, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, 2009 Bright Spots for « Seismic imaging of complex onshore structures by two-dimensional elastic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion » by R. Brossier, S. Operto and J. Virieux, Geophysics, 74(6), 2009. Best paper in 2008 for the journal Geophysics. « Velocity model building by 3D frequency-domain full-waveform inversion of wide-aperture seismic data » par H. Ben Hadj Ali, S. Operto and J. Virieux. Geophysics, 73(5), 2008. Medal CAGNIARD of the EAGE with Stéphane Operto and Jean-Xavier Dessa in 2006. Former Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (1992-1997). Former Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2011-2015).