He has won three consecutive times (2008, 2013 and 2018) the ICREA-Acadèmia Prize, awarded for a 5-year period by the Government of Catalonia to the research leaders among faculty members in Catalan universities (13% success rate). In 2016 he was made an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a Fellow of Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the Catalan national academy. He received a Google Faculty Research Award (2014, 16% success rate). He was decorated by the Government of Catalonia with the "Narcís Monturiol" Medal for merit in science and technology (2012). He was made an Elected Member of Academia Europaea and of the International Statistical Institute in 2012. He was elevated to Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in 2012. Between 2007 and 2008, he was a co-recipient of four entrepreneurship prizes. In 2004, he got the TOYPS'2004 Award from the Junior Chambers of Catalonia. In 2003, he was a co-recipient of a research prize from the Association of Telecom Engineers of Catalonia. He has authored 5 patents and over 480 publications (H-index=70, Jun. 22, 2023), and since Aug. 2015 he has ranked among the world's top 1% cited computer scientists (Essential Science Indicators). He founded and led the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy from 2007 to 2022. He has co-ordinated the H2020 project "CLARUS", the CONSOLIDER "ARES" team on security and privacy (one of Spain's strongest research teams), the EU FP5 project CO-ORTHOGONAL, the "CO-UTILITY" project (Templeton World Charity Foundation), and several Spanish funded and U.S. funded research projects. He has chaired 21 international conferences and has served in the program committee of over 414 conferences on privacy and security. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of "Transactions on Data Privacy", an Associate Editor of the "Journal of Official Statistics" and "ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)", and a past Associate Editor of "IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing", "KAIS-Knowledge and Information Systems" and "Computer Communications".