Honors and select funding
Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022, finalist, like in 2021
Prize for Good Teaching by the Student Initiative of FAU’s Physics, Mathematics and Data Science Students, for Experimental Physics 1 and 2 course in 2020/2021, awarded 2022
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2022 of the German Research Association (DFG)
Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2021, finalist, with Accelerator on a photonic chip
Principal Investigator, SFB-TR 308 “Quantum cooperativity of light and matter” (QuCoLiMa), 2021 – 2025 (end of QuCoLiMa)
Berthold Leibinger Innovation Award 2020 (2. Prize, jointly with Prof. R. L. Byer for Laser acceleration on a chip)
ERC Advanced Grant “AccelOnChip”, 2020 – 2025
“Prize for good teaching” for Experimental Physics 1 & 2 course, FAU Physics Department, 2017
Spokesperson (jointly with Prof. R. L. Byer, Stanford), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP), 2015 – 2020 (Total funding of $13,5 Million, partners: Stanford, FAU, Purdue, UCLA, TU Darmstadt, EPFL Lausanne, Uni Hamburg, SLAC, PSI, DESY, Tech-X)