2024
ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council
for the conceptional research on "Radical Chemistry with the Hydrogen Atom Through Water Activation (H-dot)"
2022
Highly Cited Researcher
(ranks among the top 1% most cited works in chemistry,
Clarivate Analytics HCR)
2021
Highly Cited Researcher
(ranks among the top 1% most cited works in chemistry,
Clarivate Analytics HCR)
2021
Guest Professorship: University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
since 2021
Spokesman of the International Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
IRTG 2678 "Functional π-Systems: Activation, Interaction and Application (pi-Sys)", funded by the
German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
DFG).
2020
Highly Cited Researcher
(ranks among the top 1% most cited works in chemistry,
Clarivate Analytics HCR)
2020
Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina
2019
Highly Cited Researcher
(ranks among the top 1% most cited works in chemistry,
Clarivate Analytics HCR)
2019
Pedler Award of the The Royal Society of Chemistry
2019
Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
2018
Member of the Editorial Board of Angewandte Chemie
2018
Elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
(Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste)
2018
Fujian “100 Talent Plan” Professor
2018
Jiaxi Lu Overseas Guest Professor in Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou
2017
SUSTech Chemical Sciences Lectureship, Shenzhen
2017
Highly Cited Researcher
(ranks among the top 1% most cited works in chemistry,
Clarivate Analytics HCR, formerly Thomson Reuters)
2017
IOCB Lecture, Prague
2016
ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council
for the conceptional research on "The Electron as a Catalyst: e-cat"
2016
Goldener Brendel - Student's Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching -
for the MSc Lecture "Organische Wirkstrukturen", Chemistry Department, WWU Münster, Germany.
2014
Research Award (Forschungspreis) 2014 of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
2014
IOCF Yoshida Lectureship, Kyoto University, Japan
since 2010
Spokesman of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich)
SFB 858 "Synergetic Effects in Chemistry - From Additivity towards Cooperativity", funded by the
German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
DFG).
2009
Guest Professorship: Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France.
2008
RSC / GE Healthcare Lecture, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
2008
Guest Professorship: Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
2007
Goldener Brendel - Student's Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching -
for the BSc Lecture "Organische Chemie", Chemistry Department, WWU Münster, Germany.
2007
Solvias Ligand Contest Award.
2006
Novartis Young Investigator Award.
2005
Steinhofer Award at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
1999
Thieme Chemistry Journal Award.
1999
Nachwuchsförderstelle of the ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
1995
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland.
