| 2010 |
Innovation Award of North Rhine-Westfalia |
| 2010 |
Junior Professorship of the Robert Bosch Foundation |
| 2010 |
Jochen-Block Award of the German Catalysis Society |
| 2008 |
GKSS Award for "Comprehensible Science" (Helmholtz Society) |
| 2008 |
"Fast Track" fellowship of the Robert Bosch Foundation |
| 2008 |
Material cost fellowship of German Chemical Industry Fund |
| 2007 |
Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler research prize of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science |
| 1998 |
Bookprize of the Chemical Industry Fond |