Fellowships and Awards
2018 Guest Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2016 WPI Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
2014 Zharadnik-Lecture; Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
2012 Guest Professor, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 Visiting Fellow, Nano GUNE San Sebastian, Spain.
2005 “Researcher of Excellence“, FZ Karlsruhe, Helmholtz Society; Germany
1998 - 2000 Fellowship “Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst” (DAAD); Germany
1998 Promotion Award Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
1992 - 1998 Competitive Elite Scholarship of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“; Germany