| 2010: | Prize for Comprehensible Science Helmholtz Center Geesthacht www.hzg.de |
| 2010: | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Geiger Dissertation Prize, Jürgen Geiger Foundation |
| 2010: | Final candidate for the "ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel Dissertation Prize", Consortium Magnetism of the German Physical Society (DPG) www.dpg-physik.de/../AG_MAG |
| 2009: | Award "Excellent Dissertation", Department of Physics, University of Hamburg www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de |
| 2004: | Attendance at the 54th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Lindau, awarded by the University of Hamburg www.lindau-nobel.org |
| 1995: | Advance Prize, awarded by The Friends and Patrons of the GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht www.gkss.de |