Prices/Awards
| 1986 | Masing Memorial Award of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) |
| 2004 | Dresden Congress Award 2004 (class: over 1001 participants) for DPG Solid State Physics Spring Meeting, Dresden, March 2003 |
| 2005 | ISMANAM Senior Scientist Award 2005 |
| 2006 | Heyn-Denkmünze of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde |
| 2006 | Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes für die deutsche Wissenschaft |
| 2009 | European Materials Medal (Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS)) |
| 2010 | Fellow Professor, University of Ulsan, Korea |
| 2010 | Thornton Medal (incl. Clerk Maxwell Award), The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) |