• CECAM Lecture, 2016
 

• Gold Medal, Technische Universität Berlin, 2013
 

• Invited Sectorial Talk, ICM, 2010
 

• IBM international shared university grant, 2008
 

• Invited Plenary Talk, ICIAM, 2007
 

• Offers of full professorships in Düsseldorf, Warwick, New York, and Paderborn
 

• Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Computational Dynamics, and member of the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal for Multiscale Modelling and Simulation
 

• Member of Scientific Advisory Board of MASDOCS, Warwick, UK
 

• Co-Chair Scientific Steering Committee PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe)
 

• PhD Scholarship “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes", 1991