| 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 | |