Awards and honors

• Member of the Max Planck Society for Advancements of Science
• Member of the Scientific-Technical Committee of the board of directors of the Research Center Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Member of the Committee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials
• Member of the Innovationsrat of Saxony Anhalt
• Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• Member of the Imperial Royal Bohemian Physical Society (Kaiserlich-Königliche Böhmische Physikalische Gesellschaft)
• Honorary Professor, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Beijing, PR China
• Fellow of the American Physical
• Society (APS)
• Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society, USA
• Adjunct Professor of Materials Science, Duke University, USA
• Board of Directors, Materials Research Society, USA
• Fellow of the American Institute of Physics, USA