| 2011 |
Postdoctoral fellowship of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2011 |
Peter A. Salamon Award of the Telluride Science Research Center |
| 2010 |
Victoria Buch Memorial Poster-Prize of the Gordon Research Conference: Water & Aqueous Solutions |
| 2009 |
Participant of the 59th Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany |
| 2008 |
Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation |
| 2007 |
PCCP Poster-Prize of the International Bunsen Discussion Meeting: “Exploring THz spectroscopy” |
| 2007 |
Fellowship of the Ruhr-University Research School |
| 2006 |
Short term foreign exchange scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |