• Research Provost (Vice President for Research) of the University of São Paulo (Mar 2018 - Feb 2022)
• Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico - Classe Comendador (2018)
• Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (2011).
• Member of The World Academy of Sciences TWAS (2018).
• Member of the São Paulo Academy of Science (2015).
• Editor-in-Chief of the Spectrochimica Acta A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/spectrochimica-acta-part-a-molecular-an...

Member of the Superior Council of CAPES (2015 - 2018)

Coordinator of the Areas of Physics and Astronomy at CAPES, two terms (2011-2018).

Member and Former President of the Committee for Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council (CNPq) of Brazil (2000-2002)

M N Saha Memorial Lecture, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 125 years of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India, 2003.

Invited Professor (Professeur Invitée) Université Bordeaux, França.

Invited Professor (Professor Invitado) Universidad de Havana, Cuba

Special issue of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Wiley), dedicated to Sylvio Canuto´s 60th birthday. Volume 111, issues 7 and 8, pp 1249-1857 . 62 contributions from 22 different countries.

(See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qua.v111.7/8/issuetoc ).

Member of the International Jury for the Unesco-L´Oréal award “For Women in Science”, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

Member of the Council of the Brazilian Physical Society (2009-2013)

Chair of the Atomic and Molecular Physics Committee at the Brazilian Physics Society (2010-2014).

Homenageado na XXII Escola Brasileira de Estrutura Eletrônica (Brasília, julho de 2010).

Homenageado na V Escola de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos (Petrópolis agosto de 2010),

Homenageado no III Simpósio de Estrutura Eletrônica e Dinâmica Molecular, Seedmol (outubro de 2010) – incluindo um workshop dedicado “à sua liderança e pioneirismo na área de física molecular e química quântica” e a criação do prêmio “Sylvio Canuto” para os melhores trabalhos.

Patrono do Curso de Licenciatura e Bacharelado em Física do Instituto de Física da USP. formandos de 2008.

Co-orientador da tese de doutorado de Kaline Coutinho, “Modelo Discreto do Solvente. Solvatocromismo no Espectro de Absorção Molecular”, Menção Honrosa, SBF 1997.

Professor homenageado dos formandos na USP (2005 e 2007) e na UFPE (1992).

Professor homenageado na Universidade de Havana, Cuba.

Five poster awards of works presented by co-authors (students and pos docs).