Honors
1990 Doctoral Fellowship from Max Planck Society, Germany
1992 Ph.D. Award from Hoechst AG, Frankfurt/M, Germany
1999 Masing Memorial Prize from German Materials Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e. V.)

Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM, German Materials Society)
TMS
American Ceramic Society
ASM International Member-at-Large
- Member of the ASM “Phase Diagram Committee"
The Electrochemical Society
- Member-at-Large of “High Temperature Materials Division” (Division Executive Committee)