Awards

2016 Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Munich
2014 Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker Award
2013 Chemical-Engineering-Medal der ETH Zürich
2012 Wilhelm-Klemm-Preis of the GDCh
2011 Hamburg Science Award
2011 Wöhler-Award for resource-saving processes
2011 Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft
2010 Nominated for the Future Award of Germany (Deutscher Zukunftspreis)
2010 Elected Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
2010 Heisenberg-Medaille of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2009 European Research Council Advanced Grant
2008 Guest Professor at the University of Beijing, China
2008 Elected member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina 
2007 Honorary Professor of Dalian University of Technology, China
2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2002 Elected member of acatech (German Academy of Engineering)
2001 Award of the Stifterverbandes der Deutschen Wissenschaft
2000  Honorary Professor at the "Ruhr-Universität" Bochum
1992 - 1994   Scholarship for postdoctoral studies of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1991 Boehringer-Ingelheim Award
seit 1990 continuous supports by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
1989 Award for outstanding PhD work, Universität Münster
1979 - 1984 Scholarship of the Cusanuswerks
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