Honours and awards
2014 Dresden Congress Award
for a vibrant congress venue
2012 Steel Innovation Award 2012
for real-time laser welding control
2009 Best Paper Award
SPIE Europe Microtechnologies for the New Millennium Bioengineered

Commitment to science and society
2015–2019
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems−II (TCAS−II)

2008–2016 Associate Editor of the Int. Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ)
since 2007
Associate Editor of the Int. Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (IJCTA)

2005–2007 Chair of the Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
since 2002
Scientific committee member and general chair (International Conference for Technology and Analysis of Seizures, International Workshop on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, International Conference on Memristive Materials, Devices & Systems, IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems)

1999–2003
Associate Editor of the IEEE, Transactions on Circuits and Systems: part-I