1990 Grants of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and of the Swedish Institute for the research program “Numerical simulations of musical instruments”, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

1995 Two “Diapasons historiques” and one “Choc du Monde de la Musique” for the restoration of the French Opera recordings “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and “L’Heure Espagnole” (shared with Olivier Cappé and Jean Laroche).

1996 Elected Fellow Member of the Acoustical Society of America.

1998 Special award at the International Festival of Scientific Film in Palaiseau for the video “Numerical simulation of timpani” (shared with Leïla Rhaouti and Patrick Joly).

1998 Best Musical Acoustics Paper Award for the presentation “Numerical simulation of timpani”, by P.Joly, L. Rhaouti and A. Chaigne, 16th International Congress on Acoustics, Seattle, June 1998.

1999 Second Seymour-Cray Prize (category: “Numerical simulations”) shared with Patrick Joly, Francis Collino and Leïla Rhaouti.

2002 Best Musical Acoustics Paper Award for the presentation “Time-domain simulation of a guitar”, by G. Derveaux, A. Chaigne, P. Joly and E. Becache, 1st Pan-American Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, December 2002.

2003 Henri Poincaré Prize at the CNRS Festival of Scientific Film in Nancy for the DVD “Numerical simulation of the acoustic guitar” (shared with Grégoire Derveaux, Patrick Joly and Eliane Bécache).

2003 Grant of the Fulbright Foundation for the research “Development of virtual musical instruments”, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA.

2005 Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms, France.

2011 Best Musical Acoustics Paper Award for the presentation “Modeling and simulation of a piano”, by J. Chabassier and A. Chaigne, 161st ASA Meeting, Seattle, May 2011.

2012 Officer in the Order of the Academic Palms, France.

2014 Grant of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Lise-Meitner Mobility Programme, for the project “Predictive Approach in Piano acoustics” (PAPA).

2016 Grant of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand-Alone Project, for the project “From Physical Modeling to Piano Making" (FPM2) .