Elected member of the Heidelberger Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)
PennState-Freiburg teaching award
Academy award of the Protestant Academy of Baden for Alexandra Klein’s talk on “Diversity as principle of life”
Project award for applied ecological projects awarded by the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the project “Schulinsektenhaus”
Cultura award of the Alfred-Töpfer Foundation
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, award for the most-cited researcher of the University (2013)
Alexander von Humboldt research fellow
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, award for the best publisher, award for one of the most cited researchers and award of one of the best fundraisers of the University (2012)
6 years Highly Cited Researcher (2015-2020)
Biodiversity award from the Academy of Science and Literature (Akademie für Wissenschaft und Literatur) for an outstanding diploma thesis (2001)