Awards and Honors:
1988: Friedrich-Wilhelm Prize of RWTH Aachen for outstanding achievements
within the Ph.D. thesis
1993: Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the Ministry for Education and Science for
"Chemistry and Physics of thin films and layer systems"
1995: Gaede-Prize of the German Vacuum Society
2007: Stanford R. Ovshinsky Prize
2009: Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2011: Member of the Northrhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2013: ERC Advanced Grant: Tuning Disorder in Chalcogenides
to realize Advanced Functional Devices
2017: Member of acatec (German National Academy of Science and
Engineering)
2018 RWTH Fellow
2018 Honorary professorship of Xi’an Jiaotong University
2019 MRS Fellow