Prizes/Lectureships / Honours:
1987 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Award for Newly Appointed
Faculty
1991 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
2003 John Appleton Lectureship, Brown University, USA
2006 JSPS Fellowship, Japan
2008 Elected to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2009 Van’t Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society
2010 Hector Research Award
2011 Elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2014 XingDa Lecture, Peking University, PRC
2017 Elected to the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Academy of Sciences