Awards and Scientific Honors:
20th March 1975 Promotion Award of the Universität des
Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
1978 Research Grant of the German Research
Foundation October 1978 – October 1979
10th September 1980 Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Preis of the Deutsche
Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Germany
1990 Elected Fellow to the Mineralogical Society of
America, USA
20 January 1994 Fullbright Mutual Educational Exchange Grant
February 1994 - September 1994
2008 Member of the Academy of Engineering
Sciences of Serbia
8th May 2012 Ehrenzeichen of the Land Salzburg, Austria