| 2025 | Nankai University Lectureship |
| 2025 | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Lectureship |
| 2018 | Chinese Chemical Society Award in Fluorine Chemistry |
| 2013 | RSC Fluorine Chemistry Prize |
| 2012 | Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank Preis |
| 2011 | Popular Science Brilliant 10 Award |
| 2011 | BASF Catalysis Award |
| 2011 | Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award |
| 2010 | Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates |
| 2010 | AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award |
| 2010 | Amgen Young Investigator Award |
| 2010 | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship |
| 2010 - 2015 | NSF Career Award |
| 2010 - 2013 | Air Force Young Investigator Award |
| 2010 - 2012 | Eli Lilly Grantee Award |
| 2009 | Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award |
| 2009 - 2011 | Massachusetts Life Science Center Young Investigator Award |
| 2008 - 2011 | Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research |
| 2008 | Milton Fund Award, Harvard Medical School |
| 2007 | Thieme Chemistry Journals Award |
| 2004 - 2006 | Postdoctoral Fellowship DAAD |
| 2000 - 2002 | Kekulé-Scholarship of the Fond der Chemischen Industrie e.V. |
| 2000 | Winterfeld Award - Towards the Total Synthesis of Teretifolione B |
| 1998 - 1999 | Fellowship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation |
| 1997 - 1998 | Scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 1997 | Scholarship of the European Union |
| 1996 - 1997 | Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation |