| 2012 | Honorable Mention IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization 2012 for Dynamic Channels in Biomolecular Systems: Path Analysis and Visualization (with N. Lindow, D. Baum, and A.-N. Bondar) |
| 2012 | Best Paper Award EuroVis 2012 Short Papers for Vortex Merge Graphs in Two-dimensional Unsteady Flow Fields (with J. Kasten, I. Hotz, B. Noack) |
| 2011 | Honorable Mention IEEE Visualization 2011 for Voronoi-based extraction and visualization of molecular paths (with N. Lindow and D. Baum) |
| 2010 | Visualization Award 28th Gallery of Fluid Motion, American Physical Society, Division Fluid Dynamics, for Global modes in a swirling jet undergoing vortex breakdown Physics of Fluids 23, 091102 (2011) (with C. Petz, K. Oberleithner, M. Sieber, C.N. Nayeri, O. Paschereit, I.J. Wygnanski and B.R. Noack) |
| 2009 | Visualization Award 27th Gallery of Fluid Motion, American Physical Society, Division Fluid Dynamics, for Lagrangian feature extraction of the cylinder wake Physics of Fluids, 22, 091108 (2010) (with J. Kasten, C. Petz, I. Hotz, G. Tadmor and B.R. Noack) |
| 2003 | Appointed as Honorary Professor by German Film School, State-Approved University for Digital Media Production, Elstal / Babelsberg, Brandenburg |
| 2002 | Visualization Award 20th Gallery of Fluid Motion, American Physical Society, Division Fluid Dynamics, for Coherent structures in a transitional flow around a backward-facing step, Physics of Fluids, 15:9, S2 (2003) (with T. Weinkauf, B.R. Noack, M. Schlegel, A. Dillmann) |
| 1999 | Offer: Group Leader ‘Scientific Visualization’ Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken |
| 1996 | Best Paper Award IEEE Visualization Conference 1996 for Interactive visualization of 3D-vector fields using illuminated stream lines (with M. Zöckler and D. Stalling) |
| 1987 | Prix Ars Electronica (Award of Distinction in Computer Animation) 1987 Prix Winners: Computer Animation (with R. Herken, J.A. Berton, A. Dirksen, R. Hödicke, U. Weinberg, R. Wilson) |
| 1977- 1984 | Scholarship from Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) |
| 1976 | First Award in ’Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik’ (German National Mathematics Competition) |