2002: Campus wide "Excellence in Teaching Award", University of California, Santa Cruz.

1997-2000: Heisenberg-Fellowship of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft".

1990-1992: Postdoctoral Fellowship of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft".

1989: University-Prize for the Dissertation, University of Augsburg.

1982-1985: Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes".