Research Award to the most distinguished researcher (Technical University of Madrid, 1994)

National Prize of Economics and the Environment (Ministry of Environment ,2001)

Distinguished Services Award (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, 2003)

Georg Cantor Award ( International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Crete, Greece,  2006).

Selected Fellow of the Operational Research Society (2002-  ).

Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2002-2006 ) and (2011-2015).

The Spaniard most cited in the area of "Operations Research & Management Science"(Thomson Reuters (ISI) and FECYT).

Positive assessment of seven periods of research activity (1972-2013) by the Spanish National Committee of Research Assessment